Comic Book Physics

Most of the Sun is pictured peeking over a hill. On the surface of the Sun are several sunspots including a very large sunspot region toward the center-right. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.

🔭 Active Sunspot Region 4366 Crosses the Sun

Image Credit & Copyright: Daniel Korona

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Silver age Legion of Super-Heroes. Sun Boy, Saturn Girl, and Invisible Kid sit looking at an applicant for membership sell himself. He got a blue and orange costume and irradiates a green aura. "I injected chemicals into myself so that I can radiate green rays that turn everything nearby temporari GREEN! It'd be great camouflage!" Sun Boy replies, "Many planets have red or yellow vegetation, not green as on Earth, and it wouldn't work there! Sorry, we can't use you!"

Letter writer asks editor of Silver Age Superman how Superman found out about his origin. Editor says he overtook the light-rays from Krypton and watched them. Okay?

a scene from a comic, a woman wearing a spacesuit is trying to remove her helmet while thinking "six, seven"

I accidently drew a meme into my comic last year, so prescient.

Pete Ross, Lana Lang, and Lex Luthor are sitting together in the front seat of a car. Lex, driving, says “I don’t know … I have theorized that ONE-WAY communication with the future might be possible by bouncing a radio beam off a distant planet, so that it would return to Earth hundreds or even thousands of years in the future. I won’t GUARANTEE anything but it’s sure worth a TRY!!”

Lex Luthor has an idea about how to communicate with the future — Adventures of Superman #444 (1988) #superman #lexluthor

In the left panel, Black Squadron is being shown around Megalox by the warden. She says “I understand that you intend to meet with one of our more… NOTABLE… prisoners. Grakkus the Hutt. That’s fine, of course— but first, I feel it is my duty to inform you of the way things work around here.” The right panel shows her gloved hand gesturing towards the planet below. “Or more specifically, down there. The enormous size and high density of the planet generate a gravitational field ten times standard.”

A close up of the prison on the surface of the planet, covered by a force-field dome. The captions read “And so, Megalox has no exterior walls. It doesn’t need them. Step outside the standard grav-field dome generated from orbit by this station, and you are instantly crushed under ten times your own weight.”

A prison with no walls — Poe Dameron #4 (2016) #starwars #marvelcomics

13 Sunsets | 5 Years | 68°

AstroBin's Image of the Day: "13 Sunsets | 5 Years | 68°" by Andrei Dumitriu

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#astrophotography

My 5-yr old: "Tell me more about black holes."
Me: "There's one at the centre of our galaxy called Sagittarius A*. It's the biggest thing in the galaxy."
5-yo: "No it isn't. 'UY Scuti' is bigger."
Me: "UY Scuti is the biggest STAR, but... let me look it up."

*Looks it up*

Me: "Yep, you're right."

#JunoCam: A collage of Jupiter images (processed with exaggerated color and contrast) taken by the Juno spacecraft as it approached then departed the gas giant.

Interested in processing your own images? buff.ly/yyrESGe

📸: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Brian Swift

1-panel SMBC comic update. A woman stands in front of a class, by a blackboard with a drawing of the Earth it, with arrows near the top. The teacher says "that's right. No more simplistic 101 stuff" to the students. The caption below the comic reads "in advanced physics, you learn about perfectly spherical cows *under rotation.*"

I realized after I drew this that I got the right hand rule wrong. But this is advanced physics, OK?

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Professor Rikkard Rynders, trapped in the time-stream, is explaining to Firestorm how he got there. “I had come to the conclusion that TIME-TRAVEL was a matter not of PHYSICS but of the CONSCIOUSNESS. Via the astral self, utilizing psychedelic drugs, I had made several trips through time. It IRRITATED me that none of my colleagues BELIEVED my successes without demonstrable verifiable PROOF.” In the panel we see the Professor and Firestorm standing next to each other in the time-stream looking onto the events of the past, where the younger Professor and his graduate assistant are setting up the experiment.

The secret of time travel! — Firestorm The Nuclear Man #70 (1988) #firestorm #timetravel #dccomics

We're so excited to share the results of the ALMA large program ARKS that studied the distribution of dust and gas in a sample of 24 exoKuiper belts. With @lucaroundtheworld.bsky.social, Meredith Hughes and a large collaboration, we just published 10 papers presenting our first results arkslp.org

"Hey look kids, today we're learning all about lethal doses of ionizing radiation. Don't bother running, because you've already got your dose!"

Lex Luthor, sitting in his levitating chair, meets Dr Packard from Project Cadmus. Dr Packard exclaims “Ah, Mr Luthor! I am mightily impressed by your security measures, sir! Even a NEUTRINO, I dare say, would be hard pressed to escape this room undetected.” Luthor replies “Such a great compliment means a great deal, coming from you —“

Lex Luthor is complimented on his security measures — Supergirl and Team Luthor #1 (1993) #lexluthor #neutrino #dccomics

Ferro Lad smashing through debris.

According to the 1976 Super DC Calendar in the 30th century today will be the birthday Andrew Nolan, the Legionnaire known as Ferro Lad!

#legionofsuperheroes #ferrolad #suneater #longlivethelegion #dccomics #patreon #superdccalendar #watercolor

$1 Pick up

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

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.”

A Physics emergency in Federal Bureau of Physics #6 (2014) #dccomics #vertigo

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.

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 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.

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...

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.

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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Back to work after over a week off:

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.

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

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.

🔵 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 🧪🔭

www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed... @stsci.edu

Hulk understands 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!”

Another entry in the continuing series:

OF COURSE I CAN SCIENCE!

The Atoms Family

#comics #dccomics #theatom