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The Cosmic Calendar

Posted on September 3, 2024 by Matthew Marcus

For me, one of the biggest challenges in studying astronomy is truly understanding the scale of space and time. When humans have walked the earth for hundreds of thousands of years, it is hard to recognize that our collective existence is a mere flash in the grand scheme of the universe’s 14-billion year life. Every […] Continue reading →

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Hubble and the TRAPPIST-1 System

Posted on April 7, 2024 by Angela Harris

An artist’s illustration of the TRAPPIST-1 planetary system  One thing from this unit I found interesting was learning about extrasolar planets. The Hubble Space Telescope was the first to detect an exoplanet’s atmospheric conditions and collect data about its makeup. In 2000, Hubble was used to study the exoplanet 209458 b which was the first […] Continue reading →

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