En una década de tribus enfrentadas solo hubo algo que puso de acuerdo a siniestros, góticos, nuevos románticos, adalides del sintetizador y hasta defensores del punk más sucio y furioso.

Y era que no había nadie como ella.

Hoy, en #LaHistorietaMusical, la gran Siouxsie Sioux.

#siouxsieandthebanshees #punk #postpunk #newwave #LaHistorietaMusical

In just under a fortnight, on 19 June, my book "111 Places in Space That You Must Not Miss", will be published by Emons in Germany, followed by the UK on 21 July & the US on 2 September 🪐✨📕

It's a tour guide of interesting places in our Solar System, the Milky Way, & Deep Space beyond, & describes what you'd find & learn if you were able to visit them 🙂

Here's a preview of the cover & a few chapters – it's available to order in all the usual places 🙇‍♂️

#SpaceScience
#ShamelessSelfPromotion

Found: the most powerful explosions in the known universe.

"Extreme nuclear transients" likely happen when a massive star is shredded by a supermassive black hole. The black hole hides in gravitational darkness until it's silhouetted by the remains of its victim.

https://www.hawaii.edu/news/2025/06/04/biggest-explosion-since-big-bang/ #space #science #nature #astronomy

Waarom zendt de ESA een wals naar Voyager 1?

Het hemelse concert van vandaag staat in het teken van het 50-jarig jubileum van de ESA en de 200ste geboortedag van Johan Strauss II.

Voyager 1 is het verst verwijderde door mensen gemaakte object in de ruimte. Credit: Caltech/NASA-JPL

Met zijn meeslepende tempo en etherische melodie is de wals “Die Bl

https://www.kuuke.nl/waarom-zendt-de-esa-een-wals-naar-voyager-1/

#DieBlauwenDonau #esa #JohannStrauss #muziek #Voyager1 #wals

Linking again to this #ForbiddenPlanet fan project.

A lot of people have made 3D computer or physical models of the Enterprise from Star Trek, but this is the same sort of thing with the settings from Forbidden Planet.

Starting with a tour of the C57-D based on fan floorplans, I think:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G74tFbmXg9s

Great ambient sound, too!

I'm glad this is finally out, and the most important part is not that it's a very distant dwarf planet (though that is very cool), but rather that its existence in that orbit completely blows a hole in the Batygin & Brown "Planet 9" hypothesis. So, there almost certainly isn't a hidden distant giant planet in our Solar System.

(Which quite a few of us, including @sundogplanets and myself, have argued was the case for years, but this rather confirms it)
https://phys.org/news/2025-05-extreme-cousin-pluto-dwarf-planet.amp