This is an occasional reminder that there is most of a century of wizard-school stories written by authors who are not horrible people.
From Le Guin's "Earthsea" through to Novik's "Scholomance Trilogy".
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| Professional website: | https://www.sternwarte.uni-erlangen.de/~grinberg/ |
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| Astronomy & Climate Crisis at the LISA Symposium: | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8jnr_Hlu_w&t=2394s |
| Astronomers for Planet Earth | https://astronomersforplanet.earth/ |
This is an occasional reminder that there is most of a century of wizard-school stories written by authors who are not horrible people.
From Le Guin's "Earthsea" through to Novik's "Scholomance Trilogy".
Was würde passieren, wenn die Sonne plötzlich zu einem Schwarzen Loch werden würde?
Rein von der Himmelsmechanik her gesehen: gar nichts. Die ganzen Planeten, Zwergplaneten (wie Pluto), Asteroiden und Kometen unseres Sonnensystems würden auf ihren Bahnen bleinen und weiterhin fröhlich um das Schwarze Loch kreisen, als sei nichts geschehen.
(Illustration aus meinem Buch, "Schwarze Löcher - Schwere Kost, Leicht gemacht" vom Kosmos-Verlag)
One thousand years of 😳
From an early ninth-century manuscript (Basel, Universitätsbiblitohek, N I 1:3c, fol. 2r).
It's gonna be a long day, but at least I got to start it by petting Micky, the ESA/ESTEC cat.
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