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I post interesting/fun uses of physics and astronomy from the world of comics
#comics #physics #astronomy 🇨🇦
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Comic Book Physics @comicbookphysics.bsky.social · Apr 7
This beautiful panel is from chapter IV of Watchmen #astronomy
Dr Manhattan walks on the surface of Mars. “I am going to look at the stars. They are so far away, and their light takes so long to reach us… all we ever see of stars are their old photographs.” We see that he leaves behind an old photograph of his own, the photo of Jon and Janey at the circus before Jon became Dr Manhattan
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The best part of reading as many DC Comics as I can since 1980 is panels like this. Art by the legend Jose Luis Garcia Lopez. From The Brave and The Bold #171. #DCComics #Batman
January 7, 2026 at 12:21 AM
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A Physics emergency in Federal Bureau of Physics #6 (2014) #dccomics #vertigo
A man leans forward, speaking into a phone held up to his ear (a large cordless landline phone). A voice asks “and which emergency service do you require?” His answer: “PHYSICS.”
January 7, 2026 at 1:43 PM
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Happy new year! My all sky camera imaged the sky every 15 seconds and this picture shows what happened in the sky in 2025. It shows the length of the night and day with the hourglass shape, the monthly lunar cycle with the diagonal bands, the elevation of the Sun at local noon, and lots of clouds.
The image shows the hourglass shape of the length of the day and night over the 365 days in 2025. Diagonal bands indicate when the Moon was up in the night sky.
January 1, 2026 at 8:54 PM
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The Electrifying Science Behind Martian Dust
A news article about my collaborator Alian Wang's new paper on dust-induced shocks in the Martian atmosphere breaking down its chemistry!
🔭🧪 #planetsci
mcss.wustl.edu/news/electri...
The Electrifying Science Behind Martian Dust
The Martian surface is a dynamic and electrical environment where dust storms and dust devils frequently stir up the terrain.
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January 5, 2026 at 9:14 PM
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The 'Astronomical Rotula', a paper tool for predicting the dates of eclipses for the next decades.
Made of 5 rotating discs. Invented 1739 by 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 James Ferguson, who would become famous for his lectures, models and popular books in astronomy, mechanics and electricity.
🔭 #astrohistory #EduSky
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A square paper sheet with several circular diagrams, on old paper. An vintage Sun-face drawing at the center. Credit: British Library, public domain. Detail from the previous photo, with some of the round scales, calendar, zodiacal calendar, new moon and full moon symbols.
January 4, 2026 at 6:24 PM
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Back to work after over a week off:
January 5, 2026 at 9:37 PM
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Happy birthday to #mathematician & #astronomer Nicole-Reine Lepaute (1723-1788)! 🐡🧪👩🏼‍🔬 #histsci My #linocut celebrates her calculated path of the solar eclipse of 1764. She also worked with Alexis Clairaut & Jérôme Lalande to precisely calculate the date of return of Halley’s Comet, solving the
My linocut print of mathematician & astronomer Nicole-Reine Lepaute (1723-1788) in a vertical gradient (bottom to top) of bright pink to lavender on white paper. She wears a wig and gown and the portrait is from the chest to head. Her 12 diagrams of the phases of the annular the solar eclipse of 1764 as viewed from Paris appear across her shoulders. Behind her head in green is her map of the path of the eclipse across Europe.
January 5, 2026 at 12:44 PM
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🔵 In 2025, the NASA/ESA/CSA #Webb Space Telescope found a new moon orbiting Uranus! Called S/2025 U1, it joined the 28 other known moons around the ice giant. Webb’s infrared view also revealed the planet’s rings and atmospheric details in stunning clarity 🧪🔭

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An annotated Webb image of the planet Uranus on a black background with 13 of its 28 known moons. The planet appears blue with a large, white patch taking up the bottom half. Around the planet is a system of nested rings. The outermost ring is the brightest while the innermost ring is the faintest. Beyond the rings are 14 labeled moons appearing as points of light. The newly discovered planet, S/2025 U1, is labeled in yellow.
January 3, 2026 at 11:27 AM
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January 3, 2026 at 8:47 PM
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Hulk understands science
December 30, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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Another entry in the continuing series:

OF COURSE I CAN SCIENCE!
Panel from The Black Terror story published in AMERICA’S BEST COMICS #20. Here we see Bob Benton (secret identity of Black Terror) holding a beaker and syringe. He says, “The ray sets up an electronic chain reaction in the chemicals and out of that emerges a modified version of an atomic bomb!”
December 28, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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The Atoms Family

#comics #dccomics #theatom
December 8, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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December 28, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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The Atom uses electromagnetism to save himself — DC Comics Presents #51 (1982) #theatom #electromagnetism #dccomics
Three panels left to right showing The Atom attempting to interact with a horseshoe magnet. Time travel has left him in the form of a phantom so he is not able to hold onto the magnet and return to his own time. Instead he has to use electromagnetism to attract himself to the magnet. He explains: “Got an idea! All matter contains POSITIVE protons and NEGATIVE electrons whose charges cancel each other out. By rapidly shrinking, I can disrupt my body’s normal electrical neutrality … and briefly take on the aspect of a CHARGED PARTICLE myself! And “charge-in-motion” is the physicists’ definition of …magnetism!”
December 28, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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The Christmas Lectures, supported by CGI, are starting TONIGHT! We couldn't wait either, so here is a little sneak peek of what's to come... 🎁

Tune in at 7.00pm on BBC Four and iPlayer to follow Maggie Aderin-Pocock on a fantastic voyage through space, searching for evidence of alien life.
December 28, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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🔭 Mystery: Little Red Dots in the Early Universe

Image Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, JWST; Dale Kocevski (Colby College)

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A panel of six images shows a red dot in the center of each image. The instrument that took the image is listed on each image, along with a z number that is the cosmological redshift. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.
December 24, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Astronauts are high-fiving, and then one of the astronauts drifts off. Artist ~ Chris Allison
December 27, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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Amadeus Cho calculates how to get out of a tight spot in Amazing Fantasy #15 (2005) #marvelcomics
Amadeus Cho stands in a diner, fists-clenched and facing two wide-eyed strangers with their hands up. The air around him is filled with physics equations as he calculates how to escape.
December 27, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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Embark on an evocative visual voyage of art inspired by black holes: Art and science converge in Lynn Gamwell’s book, "Conjuring the Void: The Art of Black Holes." arstechnica.com/science/2025...
Embark on a visual voyage of art inspired by black holes
Art and science converge in Lynn Gamwell's book, Conjuring the Void: The Art of Black Holes...
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December 26, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Ed Emswhiller’s Christmas cover art for Galaxy Science Fiction, December 1960.
December 25, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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As light travels through an expanding universe, it changes. And those changes can have some interesting implications for how we perceive time… 🧪🔭
December 17, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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“Consider a velocity so great that it would take you around the Earth’s equator seven and a half times in a single second” — DC Comics Presents #51 (1982) #superman #theatom #dccomics
Four page-wide panels: (1) Superman speeds after a laser beam propagating in space. He thinks “… unless I can outrace this LASER BEAM!” A caption says “Consider the speed of light ..” (2) Now we see inside the laser beam, the silhouette of The Atom riding alongside the photons in the beam. The caption reads “Consider a velocity so great that it would take you around the Earth’s equator 7 1/2 times in a single second…” (3) Zoomed out again to show Superman flying alongside the head of the beam. Caption: ”Now consider a man whose powers are so vast and his will so determined that he can match that speed… and BEAT IT!” (4) Superman is using his cape to catch The Atom who is emerging from the beam and growing back to his full size. Caption: “His name, of course … is SUPERMAN!”
December 17, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Our place in the Universe — The All New Atom #1 (2006) #theatom #dccomics
Dropping new Professor Ryan Choi off at his house, his colleague Panda pontificates on our place in the Universe: “Earth’s circumference at the equator’s almost twenty-five thousand miles, Ryan. It’s ten times that distance to our own Moon. Our average distance from the Sun is 93 million miles. Jupiter’s almost five times that distance, at a diameter 12 times that of Earth. Our Sun dwarfs our planet, and it’s one star out of an untold number. It’s not even a particularly LARGE star. Look up at the night sky, Ryan. We’re each and every one of us ALREADY small.”
December 16, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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A head-on collision between irresistible force and immovable object fixes the space-time continuum in DC Comics Presents #2 (1978) #superman #superboy #dccomics
Three panels showing Superman and Superboy first lining up facing each other preparing to run, then sprinting at high speed towards each other, and then finally flashes of light and a loud BARAMMM as they collide. The thoughts of Superman reveal what is happening: “The signal transmitted across time by the alien COMMUNICATOR I’m wearing DID THIS — DISTURBED the SPACE-TIME CONTINUUM— DISTORTING the NATURAL LAWS — allowing me to CO-EXIST with a version of MYSELF from an earlier time of my life! But as a RESULT of the disruption, both SUPERBOY and I are TRAPPED here in the 30th CENTURY! I once DREAMED about a situation like this — when I was SUPERBOY! And IN that dream, we solved our problem with a DELIBERATE HEAD-ON COLLISION BETWEEN US! The impact of an IRRESISTIBLE FORCE meeting an IMMOVABLE OBJECT — namely the two of US — hurled us back to our respective times! I just hope it works in REAL LIFE, TOO!”
December 15, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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December 14, 2025 at 4:04 PM