With Chuck Berry's death, the fact that his song Johnny B. Goode is on the 12-in Voyager Golden (actually gold-plated copper) Record - found abroad both Voyager 1 and 2 - has been floating around the internet. Carl Sagan chaired the committee that picked the contents of the record, which includes images, sounds, music, and… Continue reading Go Johnny go…
Dr. Michaël Gillon, whose team discovered the new planetary system, said they should be named after the first seven Trappist beers.
THE YELLOW ONE IS THE SUN!!!
Who likes data? I collected a fair amount of data (and made many an Excel spreadsheet) over the three weeks I watched all those movies for my Master's project. This turned into my four-part video series Hollywood's Outer Space, but I also had to write up a more formal-sounding review of that data. It had to… Continue reading 90 movies, 19 days, 1 dissertation
Do you want to see an alien solar system? Those roving dots are four real planets, orbiting a very young star called HR 8799 about 129 lightyears from Earth. The star itself is hiding under the black circle to block most of its light (i.e. it's not added in post), so the telescope can actually pick out… Continue reading Pale Blue Dots
(Completed Mar. 2016 for my MSc course on Creative Arts in Science Engagement)
If there were no atmosphere to make the sky blue, we'd all be incredibly dead, incredibly fast. But let's set that aside for the moment. If there were no atmosphere to make the sky blue, what colour would we look out and see? We'd see a (cloudless) black sky all day, no matter the hour.… Continue reading What colour is the universe?
JD Voyek 