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Author Archives: hellouniverse1234
SpaceX has officially created a non-zero chance of a car accident in space.
February 6, 2018. The Falcon Heavy launched into space with Elon Musk’s own personal Tesla Roadster. SpaceX has had many successful launches, had several successful landings, and on top of all of that… they can claim themselves to be the first ever company to send a car to space. Yes, that’s a real image. […] Continue reading
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SpaceX has officially created a non-zero chance of a car accident in space.
February 6, 2018. The Falcon Heavy launched into space with Elon Musk’s own personal Tesla Roadster. SpaceX has had many successful launches, had several successful landings, and on top of all of that… they can claim themselves to be the first ever company to send a car to space. Yes, that’s a real image. […] Continue reading
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Why Christopher Nolan’s tidal representation in Interstellar makes a terrifying sort of sense.
Note: Spoiler alert for those that haven’t seen the movie! Within the Interstellar universe, there exists an enormous black hole in a distant galaxy, named Gargantua by the movie’s characters. Around this black hole orbits several different planets, and the characters are hoping to explore and learn more about them. One of these […] Continue reading
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Why Christopher Nolan’s tidal representation in Interstellar makes a terrifying sort of sense.
Note: Spoiler alert for those that haven’t seen the movie! Within the Interstellar universe, there exists an enormous black hole in a distant galaxy, named Gargantua by the movie’s characters. Around this black hole orbits several different planets, and the characters are hoping to explore and learn more about them. One of these […] Continue reading
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Historical Astronomers in Context
Johannes Kepler’s (December 27, 1571 – November 15, 1630) primary contribution to the astronomy field was his laws of planetary motion. Not only are these concepts important to modern day astrophysics (such as when sending satellites to study distant planets), but also lay the foundation for Newton’s work on universal gravitation. One major astronomical event that happened […] Continue reading
Historical Astronomers in Context
Johannes Kepler’s (December 27, 1571 – November 15, 1630) primary contribution to the astronomy field was his laws of planetary motion. Not only are these concepts important to modern day astrophysics (such as when sending satellites to study distant planets), but also lay the foundation for Newton’s work on universal gravitation. One major astronomical event that happened […] Continue reading
The Universe in Dots
Let’s say the average human has a lifespan of 80 years. To make it a little easier on our calculations, we’ll bump it up to 100 years. Let’s represent that as a dot. The species Homo Sapiens has been around for roughly 200,000 years. If the human lifespan is shown as a single dot, the […] Continue reading
The Universe in Dots
Let’s say the average human has a lifespan of 80 years. To make it a little easier on our calculations, we’ll bump it up to 100 years. Let’s represent that as a dot. The species Homo Sapiens has been around for roughly 200,000 years. If the human lifespan is shown as a single dot, the […] Continue reading
Saying Hello
Quick introduction for Blog 0: My name is Emily Dong. I’m a sophomore at Vanderbilt University majoring in Computer Engineering and minoring in Astronomy. I’ve been interested in astronomy for a while now, as seen in the (very dark) picture above of a night-time astronomy lab. One of my favorite blogs: Wait but Why. The […] Continue reading
Saying Hello
Quick introduction for Blog 0: My name is Emily Dong. I’m a sophomore at Vanderbilt University majoring in Computer Engineering and minoring in Astronomy. I’ve been interested in astronomy for a while now, as seen in the (very dark) picture above of a night-time astronomy lab. One of my favorite blogs: Wait but Why. The […] Continue reading