Étienne Léopold Trouvelot We live in a golden age of astrophotography, with a feast of jaw-dropping images from the farthest reaches of space crossing our news feeds on a daily basis. But sometimes it’s good to revisit the imagery of our pre-photographic past—in this case, the work of 19th-century illustrator Étienne Léopold Trouvelot. The Frenchman, […]
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NASA’s Proposed Moon Mission Offers Little Value at Astronomical Cost
Opinion: NASA is looking at sending people back into space. But taxpayer dollars are better spent on unmanned missions. https://media.wired.com/photos/5a74cc2b3ef3783857b649a4/master/pass/VAFB-20171113-PH_KLS01_0277_orig.jpg
For Canadians in queue for long-term care spots, waiting costs ‘astronomical’
The younger sisters of a Nova Scotia woman with epilepsy and multiple sclerosis say the costs of waiting to get her into a nursing home are hard for them to bear. CBC | Health News
Data mining astronomical records fails to falsify Einstein
Enlarge / The orbits of stars and gas around the Milky Way’s black hole. (credit: M. Schartmann and L. Calcada/ European Southern Observatory and Max-Planck-Institut fur Extraterrestrische Physik.) Testing general relativity is a fraught business. The theory has proven to be so robust that anyone who thinks it’s wrong gets slapped around by reality in […]