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Author Archives: fathomingthestars
Near Speed of Light Travel in the Atmosphere
When physics classes learn about relativity, typical problems involve calculating relative velocities, masses, or distances for objects moving near the speed of light, 3 * 10^8 m/s. These objects might be objects like spaceships, travelling in outer space, but they are often more common objects like cars and trains, or even baseballs. The two different […] Continue reading
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Forest Park
This is a photo of probably my favorite place in the world: Forest Park in St. Louis. This particular photo is a part of the park called Kennedy Forest. Kennedy Forest has tons of dirt running paths and it is really fun just to get lost in the beauty of the place. Continue reading
Rainbow Orion
An image of the Orion Nebula from NASA’s Spitzer and Hubble Space Telescopes. The image is composed of light collected in infrared, visible, and ultraviolet wavelengths. At the bright yellow center of the image are four stars called the Trapezium which are 100,000 times brighter than the sun. Located 1,500 light years from Earth, the […] Continue reading
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