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Former spiral galaxies NGC 4038 and NGC 4039 –– the Antennae Galaxies –– are a few hundred million years into a merger that will result in a single, elliptical galaxy.
ImageL: ESA/Hubble & NASA
NBD just two black holes spiraling into each other 3.7 billion years ago, after the appearance of the earliest life forms on Earth but before the first photosynthetic prokaryotes began giving off oxygen as a waste product.
https://t.co/qv1RjPhvX8
Of course they released the trailer on her birthday, and put her name first on the poster.
“Why is the night sky dark, if we live in an infinite universe?” Kepler, Halley, and Cheseaux all pondered this apparent paradox, but the question is commonly attributed to Heinrich Olbers. He was born #OTD in 1758.
Images: https://t.co/4e5Bs8V4Zd, Wellcome Collection
Berkey ended up doing a good amount of promo material, posters, etc for Lucas. Though McQuarrie and others did more concept art for the films, a lot of the ships — especially the Imperial Destroyers and Mon Calamari cruisers — are distinctly Berkian.
Images of Jupiter, Io, Europa, and Ganymede captured during Voyager 2’s 1979 flyby.
Images: NASA / JPL
Here’s something similar, from @PhysicsWorld. The image of the supermassive black hole at the heart of M87, a simulation, and the simulation adjusted to reflect the resolution of the EHT — their guess for what we’d see!
https://t.co/GoKPtAci1c
Image: Akiyama et al and ApJL