Space

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Luminet’s Black Hole Rendering

Posted February 1st, 2022. (Permalink)
Cataloged under Drawing and Space

The first computer-aided rendering of a simulated black hole was made in 1979 by Jean-Pierre Luminet. Stunningly accurate and beautiful, it was made by feeding punch cards into an IBM 7040 mainframe computer and hand plotting the output with ink on negative image paper. (Engadget article)

Martian time

Posted January 27th, 2022. (Permalink)
Cataloged under Matt Webb, Space, Time and Mars

Matt Webb wrote a post about the time difference between Earth and Mars. The Martian day is just 39 minutes longer than an Earth day, which makes communication between the two planets surprisingly tricky.