Corey S. Powellさんのイラストまとめ

"Both sides" doesn't work even in biology. The amino acids in your body are all left-handed, and the genetic letters in your DNA are right-handed. Nobody knows why. https://t.co/gfa4Gcu1n0

A final highlight from SOFIA's first decade: It mapped magnetic fields that snake around our galaxy's supermassive black hole. Those fields seem to help keep the black hole quiet (for now). https://t.co/p6ojhgsl3L

Our Sun is an exceptionally boring star. Either we live at a dull period in solar history, or the Sun truly is an outlier. Either way, something unusual is going on here. https://t.co/6l6oI64N3M

Just for fun, let's zoom in on the colliding Antennae galaxies, courtesy of the Hubble Space Telescope. There's...a lot going on. https://t.co/9PSUFmeh2m

Wrinkled terrain on Mercury shows that the planet may once have had warm geothermal springs.
Could simple life have evolved on Mercury? It's not as crazy as it sounds. https://t.co/W2A4eFoLmn

Lots of cool, smaller space missions are coming, too! Like Japan's Destiny+ mission to a rock comet, and the DART mission that will slam into a near-Earth asteroid to change its course. https://t.co/hJrLkRO28k and https://t.co/Uadb4smkxl

Kudos to illustrator Frederik Peeters, who has imagined a happy (tungsten-clad?) astronaut flying like Mary Poppins above the molten-iron storm front on planet WASP-76b. https://t.co/ciWjkuQGh6

What are those huge, enigmatic blobs inside the Earth? I tried to make sense of our planet's inner puzzles: https://t.co/5TqlHtxH3d

If you've ever wanted to discover your own black hole, now's your chance.* The LOFAR radio telescope is recruiting citizen scientists to help locate supermassive black holes in distant galaxies.
* Alas, the black hole will not technically belong to you.
https://t.co/h3aE6LTfCW

Today I learned: Jonathan Swift was making another snide joke about academia when he named his land of useless intellectuals "the flying island of Laputa." https://t.co/WQG0RhQPh2