Playing games in my free time…and when I should be doing other things
A team of scientists with the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope recently released a set of gamma-ray constellations. While these constellations are not visible to our eyes, they do continue the long tradition of telling stories about groups of bright lights in the night sky. I, this video, I discuss these new (unofficial) constellations and connect them to the game Gloom.
In my latest video, I talked about a mysterious object that astronomers have been studying. This object, called AT2018cow has been nicknamed the Cow – but how did this puzzling object get such an unusual name?
Astronomers recently reported results on an puzzling object they’ve dubbed the “Cow.” Is this cow a supernova? Maybe a star getting shredded by a black hole? In this video, I discuss this object, the different interpretations, and how they relate to the game Mysterium.
In my latest video, I shared information about a pair of rovers bouncing over the surface of an asteroid named Ryugu. The two rovers hitched […] Read More
Two rovers recently bounced across an asteroid – the first time rovers have ever traveled across the surface of an asteroid. What can we learn […] Read More
In my latest video, I talked about how the Gaia mission discovered some “Milky Way interlopers” in our galaxy that were moving differently than expected […] Read More
I find pictures of spiral galaxies to be one of the most beautiful cosmic images. These galaxies are those grand disks of stars with 2 […] Read More
Researchers recently discovered stars in our galaxy that weren’t moving the way they should if they had been born in the Milky Way. Where […] Read More
In my latest video, I talk about ring galaxies and how black holes and neutron stars in those rings shine in X-rays. But where do […] Read More
In my latest video, I talk about ring galaxies and how astronomers have found that they originate in collisions of just the right size galaxies […] Read More