From Jupiter to Saturn, to Uranus, and finally Neptune, our outer Solar System comprises four fascinatingly very different yet very similar planets: the gas giants, also known as the Jovian planets. But why Jovian? As stated, all four planets are …
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During the 1880s and up until 1989, a technique of astronomy known as glass plates or photographic plates was widely used to map stars, clusters, and other astronomical objects. The most important collection is held at the Harvard College Observatory …
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Set to launch in December 2025, the newly named Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is NASA’s next wide-field telescope. Named after NASA’s first chief astronomer and pioneering scientist Nancy Grace Roman who, 30 years ago advocated for the development of …
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Unbeknownst to most, Mercury, the closest planet to our Sun (and surprisingly, also the closest to planet Earth), has been hiding a large solid inner iron core beyond its crust and mantle. And this core is no conventional one; it …
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Why is the Moon moving away from Earth? The Moon, Earth’s only natural satellite located about 384,000 kilometers from our planet, is slowly drifting away from Earth. The Moon currently sustains the function of stabilizing Earth’s wobble or polar motion, …
/ PhysicsWhen an object, should it be an aircraft, a bullet, or a particle, reaches a speed of about 1235 kilometers per hour, it is said to have reached the speed at which sound travels. At that moment, an extraordinary phenomenon …
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Around 4 centuries ago, Giovanni Domenico Cassini, an Italian astronomer and engineer, was born. 8 June 1625 would mark the beginning of a life full of discoveries, and pioneering work, notably the discovery of several of Saturn’s satellites as well …
The Inspiring Life and Works Cassini, The Man Who Unraveled The Secrets of Saturn. Read More »
Usually and more commonly known as the husband of Marie Curie and the co-winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903, Pierre Curie, born on this day 162 years ago, was also, aside from for his and Marie Curie’s …
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In Jupiter’s atmosphere is a giant storm that has been raging for more than 300 years and is known as its Great Red Spot. Due to the storm’s high-speed winds and extreme temperatures, enjoying the view of the curious swirling …
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Beyond the furthest planet of our system, Neptune, lies a dense and large torus-shaped region composed of rocky and icy bodies, comet-like objects, and dwarf planets, amongst which are the infamous Pluto and the more recently explored Arrokoth. Starting at …
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/ PhysicsAmidst the 19th century, the scientific world saw considerable developments within the fields and applications of electricity and its transmission. Although wireless transmission is today omnipresent, back then, scientists like James Clerk Maxwell and before him, Michael Faraday was, concretized …
/ PhysicsGravitational lensing In areas of the universe where distributions of matter have a high density, the curve in space-time becomes so strong that it even starts bending light. It is those areas that we now refer to as gravitational lenses …
SOFIA, the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy To overcome the drawbacks of ground-based telescopes when studying the solar system – interferences, weather – a partnership between NASA and the German Aerospace Center (DLR) has put together a stratospheric observatory based …
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The Square Kilometer Array (SKA) Planned to be built in remote locations of the Southern Hemisphere, the middle of South Africa, and the West Australian desert is a large intergovernmental radio telescope: the Square Kilometre Array (SKA). Its location, below …
Look At The World’s Largest Radio Telescope That Will Change Space Exploration Forever. Read More »
According to the currently accepted black hole mode, a black hole is a spacetime region (the 4-dimensional conceptual model combining the three dimensions of space and the dimension of time) surrounding a point of infinite density, the singularity, where both …
A Brief History of Black Holes From 1784 To 2021. Read More »
