March 2012
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Meet CERN's New Artist in Residence, Julius von...
Geeta Dayal | Wired Magazine | March 19, 2012
Julius von Bismarck is only 28 years old, but his artistic resume is already several pages long. He’s currently taking time off from school to be the new artist in residence at CERN — the world’s biggest particle physics research facility, home of the Large Hadron Collider. On Wednesday, von Bismarck will deliver a major public address at CERN’s Globe...
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kaiyves asked: What sort of submissions do you want for your zine?
hi internet friends-
im going to make a space zine. its very preliminary stages - recently conceived and just beginning to grow. i wanna collaborate with some folks. if interested e-mail me at launchwithme@gmail.com.
science is culture, cosmos within us, universal appeal, etc. etc.
in the interim, this is philip bond’s illustration of janice voss. philip’s illustrations first got...
New Supernova Found "Next Door"—Getting Brighter
Rachel Kaufman | National Geographic News | March 22, 2012
A new supernova has been found in the nearby galaxy M95, astronomers have confirmed, and it’s one of the closest stellar deaths yet witnessed.
On March 16 professional astronomers and amateur observers detected the bright point of light on the outskirts of M95, a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Leo, the lion. Since...
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Last Days of the Universe →
youmightfindyourself:
When physicists project forward 100 trillion years, they see potential threats much more dire than a ballooning sun or even the dying of all the stars. Starkman says we must also consider the potentially game-ending influence of an all-pervasive cosmic force known as dark energy. “To put it simply,” he says, “dark energy is very bad for life.”
Scientists don’t know what...
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Saturn Moon Has Oxygen—New NASA Evidence Boosts...
Brian Handwerk
National Geographic News | March 5, 2012
NASA’s uncovered new evidence that Saturn’s moon Dione has an oxygen atmosphere—but just barely.
The findings seem to support the idea that moons of Jupiter and Saturn could hold extraterrestrial life.
When NASA’s Cassini spacecraft buzzed Dione on April 7, 2010, the probe “sniffed” oxygen around the...
