By Dr. Bryan C. Keene / 12.14.2015 Adjunct Professor of Art History Pepperdine University As a certified Star Wars fan (thanks...
Astronomy
Celestial map from 1670, by the Dutch cartographer Frederik de Wit / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Michael Fowler / 07.23.2015...
Yurri and Wanjel – the Gemini stars Castor and Pollux in the Wergaia traditions of western Victoria,...
Imagined view from Kepler-10b, a planet that orbits one of the 150,000 stars that the Kepler spacecraft...
More than 2,000 years ago, the Babylonians understood the cycle of eclipses. They also regarded them as signs that could foretell the death of a king. By Dr. Gonzalo...
Ricardo Liberato/wikimedia, CC BY-ND Understanding the past requires knowledge that goes beyond modern science. By Dr. Daniel Brown / 03.12.2018...
By Dr. Martin Rees / 03.14.2018 Emeritus Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics University of Cambridge Soon after...
As long as clouds don’t get in the way, the view should be spectacular. NASA Goddard By Dr....
Fig 1 By Dr. Frank Wilczek / 12.11.2015 Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
Illuminated illustration of the Ptolemaic geocentric conception of the Universe by Portuguese cosmographer and cartographer Bartolomeu Velho...
This artist’s concept shows the most distant supermassive black hole ever discovered. It is part of a...
Complex nature. Photo by Alan L/Flickr By Dr. Martin Rees / 12.01.2017 Emeritus Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics...
Artist’s concept of interstellar asteroid 1I/2017 U1 (‘Oumuamua) as it passed through the solar system after its...
In a galaxy far away, two dead stars begin a final spiral into a massive collision. The...
GHOST IN THE SHELL – What looked like an ordinary supernova, shown in this artist’s illustration, might...
Image from NASA By Azriel ReShel / 11.09.2017 All photos credit NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Gerald Eichstädt/Seán Doran Witness the Beauty of...
John Wilkins, Bishop of Chester, Portrait by John Greenhill, c.1670 / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Romeo Vitelli...
Map of all matter – most of which is invisible dark matter – between Earth and the...
Illustration of hot, dense, expanding cloud of debris stripped from the neutron stars just before they collided. NASA’s...
A group of astronomers have shown that the fastest-moving stars in our galaxy – which are travelling...
Relative positions of distant spacecraft. / NASA, JPL Caltech By Dr. Michael Strauss / 02.22.2017 Professor of...
An illustration of Cassini diving between Saturn and the planet’s innermost ring. NASA/JPL-Caltech By Dr. Tanya Hill /...
‘A movie camera to watch the whole universe’; an artist’s conception of the LSST inside its dome...
Detail from an impressionistic poster of the TRAPPIST-1 planetary system. / Amanda Smith, IoA By Dr. Amaury...
The Pancam on NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity took the component images of this enhanced-color scene during...
NASA’s Kepler space telescope team has identified 219 new planet candidates, 10 of which are near-Earth size...
This artist’s concept shows planet KELT-9b orbiting its host star, KELT-9. It is the hottest gas giant...
Isaac Newton’s reflecting telescope of 1671 / The Royal Society, London By Thony Christie / 03.28.2017 Historian...
Artist’s conception of two merging black holes, spinning in a nonaligned fashion. LIGO/Caltech/MIT/Sonoma State (Aurore Simonnet) By...
Working with image data from NASA’s Cassini mission, researchers have found evidence that Saturn’s moon Enceladus may...