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Author Archives: adyacob
Water and the Future of Life Beyond Earth
The search for habitable life beyond Earth is a driving force to the human existence. For a place to be …
APF Telescopes used to Discover Nearby Planetary System
This week, a collective team of astronomers from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, UC Berkeley & the University of …
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An End to the Discovery of Bright Kuiper Belt Objects?
Check out this image from Universe Today: This shows the largest known objects in the Kuiper Belt. Pretty interesting to …
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Merging Green Galaxies
This picture is a pretty cool visual representation of what’s going on way out there in outer space. This picture …
Solar Flares: Terrifying, Fascinating, or Both?
Check out this animated gif released by NASA earlier this week. Just a few days ago, the Solar Dynamics Observatory …
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Dawn Reaches Ceres
Ceres, the dwarf planet located in the Asteroid Belt, has a new inhabitant. NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has just recently entered …
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Dragonfly Telescope
Telescopes are instruments used in the observation of distant objects by collecting electromagnetic radiation (Wikipedia). Because of their necessity for …
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“Is Dark Matter Perfectly Dark?
Dark Matter is perhaps the universe’s greatest enigma. Matter that cannot be seen yet accounts for roughly 80% of universal …
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Historical Astronomers in Context: Tycho Brahe (1546-1601)
a) Tycho Brahe Born: December 14, 1546 Died: October 24, 1601 b) Tycho Brahe lived at the same time as Johannes …
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A Human Perspective of the Cosmic Calendar
In this blog post, I will be discussing the advent of the Cosmic Calendar. Astrophysicists developed the Cosmic Calendar as …
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