Tag: exoplanets

• The beauty of planetary birth

  Many astronomical images are beautiful. People especially love pictures of spiral galaxies or planetary nebulas, but some others evoke a gradual sense of beauty. In science, beauty comes with knowledge: knowing what you see reveals why something is beautiful. The image above is one such: it’s fuzzy and not particularly colorful, but when you know…

  Matthew R. Francis

  November 9, 2014

  Astronomy

  ALMA, exoplanets, millimeter-wave astronomy, planetary science, protoplanets, scientific beauty, submillimeter astronomy