My 1st cover story! For New Scientist about experiments that are close to telling us if spacetime is quantized. And a Q&A with a physicist who is simulating space-time from scratch!
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg26034621-500-is-space-time-quantum-six-ways-to-unpick-the-fabric-of-the-universe
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2399292-the-physicist-trying-to-create-space-time-from-scratch
A bit late to the party, but here's what the solar eclipse looked like from the Bay Area on Saturday morning! I was fighting the clouds the entire time.
The blue supermoon!
For those who may not have seen recent news stories: you get a blue moon whenever there are 2 full moons in the same month. Coincidentally, the moon was at its closest point last night (because the Earth's orbit is elliptical). This won't happen again until 2037. It's not a big deal astronomy-wise, but still a fun observation to make!
#BlueSupermoon #BlueMoon #SuperMoon #astronomy #science #moonlight #moon
"Like a bright city in the middle of a barren desert, our galactic neighborhood is enveloped by a cosmic void — an enormous, almost unfathomably empty pocket of space."
My latest for Quanta Magazine!
https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-nearly-nothing-might-solve-cosmologys-biggest-questions-20230725/
#science #astronomy #ScienceMastadon #ScienceJournalism #ScienceWriter
I was delighted to write this NY Times article about astronomers' idea to build the most powerful gamma ray telescope ever on the backs of the thousands of satellites that crowd our skies!
(With plenty of caveats that we need more regulations around these mega constellations of satellites).
Here is a gift link to read the article for free.
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Comet ZTF C/2022 E3! Footage from a couple of weeks ago when it was at its brightest.
How many mistakes can you find in this chart? This chart confused me for awhile before I realized there must be some typos! Other charts on this NOAA climate web page also use axis-lines that are not centered on zero. https://www.climate.gov/news-features/climate-qa/whats-hottest-earths-ever-been
