[#HDR defense] of IRAP astronomer Sébastien Deheuvels this Monday morning. Topic: the #seismology of #subgiant and red giant stars.
Analysis of seismic data acquired by the #CoRoT and #Kepler space missions has enabled Sébastien Deheuvels and his team to revisit the problem of #chemical element transport and angular momentum in stars, measure the #internal rotation of sub-giants and red giants, detect the presence of #magnetic fields in stellar interiors, ...
In honour of his birthday: Kepler’s Somnium. This hand-printed linocut illustrates astronomer and mathematician Johannes Kepler's science fiction story Somnium, or "The Dream". Kepler (1571-1630) wrote the strange manuscript in Latin, and circulated it amongst friends, with the intention of eventually publishing it but he died before that could could happen.
Though dogged in his desire to confirm the below pictured "pseudoscientific" (plain false tbh) model of the solar system, #Kepler also stuck to the data and thus ended up elaborating three robust laws of planetary motion which paved a significant part of the way towards Newton's later laws.
If I've understood the now (imo) become distasteful dispute between #IIT advocates and critics, then I believe this historical example contains important lessons for both.