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Writing by Statistical Analysis
It isn’t that I’ve never tracked my word count before, but I’ve never looked at the words on a graph like THIS. I find it interesting because in plotting you want significant stages (act 1, act 2, etc.) to fall at predictable places in the story. This graph looks useful. I can see that I’m…
Hubble Spies the Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 4394
Shown in this Hubble Space Telescope image, NGC 4394 is the archetypal barred spiral galaxy, with bright spiral arms emerging from the ends of a bar that cuts through the galaxy’s central bulge. These arms are peppered with young blue stars, dark filaments of cosmic dust, and bright, fuzzy regions of active star formation. via…
Frontier Fields Galaxy Cluster MACS J0717
“Frontier Fields” galaxy cluster MACS J0717, one of the most complex and distorted galaxy clusters known, is the site of a collision between four clusters. It is located about 5.4 billion light years away from Earth. via NASA http://ift.tt/1QPz8L0
TESS Finds First Earth-Size Planet in the Habitable Zone
TOI 700 d is the first Earth-size habitable-zone planet discovered by TESS, NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite. via NASA https://ift.tt/2N4R2Rl (artist’s illustration)
Reflecting on a Spacecraft Arrival
NASA astronaut Scott Kelly, currently on a one-year mission on the International Space Station, posted this image of the successful capture of the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft with the space station’s robotic arm. via NASA http://ift.tt/1Jnghnr
