15 Beautiful Quotes by Max Planck
On April 23,1858, a child was born into an intellectual family of lawyers and theologians in Northern Germany. But, who knew that one day, this child would change the entire world’s way of looking at …
The Stefan’s Law And Its Importance In Astrophysics
In the previous article of the series, we started our journey of core astrophysics by learning about the redshifts. Today I’m going to shed light on a very important law of physics that is simple …
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5 Important Life Lessons Stephen Hawking Taught Us About Life
Stephen Hawking was one of the most influential scientists to exist in the history of humankind. He was born on January 8, 1942, in England (exactly 300 years after the death of Galileo Galilee), and …
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The 3 Types of Redshifts
In the second article of the series (EM Spectrum and Astrophysics), we saw how the spectrum is the most important tool for an Astrophysicist to decode the Universe. There is a lot of information we …
What are Feynman Diagrams?
Suppose, you are reading a really long text in a bid to understand something. What happens? Slowly, you start feeling dull and bored. Your eyes and mind become saturated. Isn’t it? But, if you find …
The Celestial Coordinate Systems
If you want to reach somewhere, what is the most important thing that you must know? You need to know about the specific coordinates of that place, that is, the address of that place. To …
Detecting The Gravitational Waves From White Dwarfs
This article on gravitational waves from white dwarfs is a guest article by Ariana Vlad, senior at the International Computers High School of Bucharest, Romania, where she focuses on studying Physics and Mathematics. Ever since …
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Distances And Their Units In Astrophysics
This is the fourth article in Basics of Astrophysics series and we are now ready to explore the cosmos in detail from here on. Every branch of science has its own order of work field. …
The Challenges of Building a Nuclear Fusion Power Plant
Nuclear Fusion – the reaction that powers the sun and stars has been an elusive dream of scientific community for decades. A fusion power plant fueled by burning plasmas, having temperatures of about 100 million …
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Everything You Need To Know About The Telescopes
Today, we know how our neighboring world looks like, we know how beautiful this universe is, we know about the number of exoplanets lurking in our universe, we have seen the magnificent supernovas and we …
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The EM Spectrum And Its Importance In Astrophysics
Isn’t it amazing that even if we are living hundreds of thousands of kilometers away from the beautiful stars, planets, moon, and the sun, we can still know and understand a lot about them? Today, …
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LIGO And The Gravitational Waves
This article on LIGO and gravitational waves is a guest article by Ariana Vlad, senior at the International Computers High School of Bucharest, Romania, where she focuses on studying Physics and Mathematics. What Are Gravitational …
Difference Between Astrophysics, Astronomy & Cosmology.
April 10, 2020, marked the anniversary of the first black hole image. What better date could be to start the Basics of Astrophysics series! So here we begin with the first article. I was wondering …
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What Is Entropy, Exactly?
We live in the 21st Century. Science has become so advanced that today we are smashing atoms in particle accelerators, launching interplanetary space probes, imaging the deep space across the entire electromagnetic spectrum and so …