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The beautiful surface of Europa

Northern lights (by Teemu Lautamies)

Interstellar bow

Big math news! It’s been thirty years since mathematicians last found a convex pentagon that could “tile the plane.” The latest discovery (by Jennifer McLoud-Mann, Casey Mann, and David Von Derau) was published earlier this month. Full story.

New video! Supernova Remnants in a nutshell!

Image of the galaxy NGC 5866

Illustration by Jean Luc Beghin for the 1970 edition of Spirou.

The top-right text says the image doesn’t depict any particular moment during the Apollo missions but that the two astronauts were picked arbitrarily: Frank Borman, commander of Apollo VIII (the first mission to fly around the moon) and Neil Armstrong, commander of Apollo XI (and the first person to walk on the moon).

I cleaned this image up a bit and the source-file can be found here, as well as other high definition scientific illustrations.

Andromeda Rising over the Alps : Have you ever seen the Andromeda galaxy? Although M31 appears as a faint and fuzzy blob to the unaided eye, the light you see will be over two million years old, making it likely the oldest light you ever will see directly. Now rising near a few hours after sunset from mid-latitude northern locations, Andromeda is rising earlier each night and will be visible to northerners all night long starting in September. The featured image captured Andromeda rising above the Italian Alps last month. As cool as it may be to see this neighboring galaxy to our Milky Way with your own eyes, long duration camera exposures can pick up many faint and breathtaking details. Recent data indicates that our Milky Way Galaxy will collide and coalesce with the slightly larger Andromeda galaxy in a few billion years. via NASA

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