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Tag Archives: blog1
Just how small… or big… am I?
The Known Universe This video really puts into perspective the true size of the observable universe. Some say this makes us insignificant, but I disagree. I think that our ability to map the nature of the universe to such an extent makes us quite significant! Realize that everything we know about the universe came solely from…
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The scale of supermassive black holes is mind boggling!
Crazy black hole video! They say learning about astronomy is a great way to feel insignificant, and nowhere is this more apparent than in the study of supermassive black holes. The amount of matter contained within these beasts is impossible to comprehend without visual aids. The black hole in the center of the Phoenix cluster […]
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Faster than the Speed of Light
In summer of 2013, the New York Times published an article about NASA’s (then) newest project. Physicists and engineers were trying to determine whether “warp drive” might one day be possible. Warp drive, for those of you who are not Trekkies, is traveling faster than the speed of light or 3.0 x 10^5 km/s, and thus far […]
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Blog #1: The Cosmic Calendar
After a particularly tough day or week, people can often be heard grumbling that “it has been such a long day/week.” I definitely fall victim to this habit and have always been fascinated by the fact that a specific amount of time can seem to pass by at different rates depending on the situation. How […]
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Blog #1 Space is Mind Blowing!
It is weird to think that we are all made of little particles that exploded in supernovas. Like how were we even created? It blows my mind. I was looking up some fun facts about space, and I came across an article that talked about Saturn, and I learned that Saturn has such a low […]
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Star size comparison
Here’s a video about the size of planets and stars. Comparing to the size of Earth, the size of a single person is so tiny that even 70 billion people cannot completely occupy the whole land of Earth. However, when it comes to the scale of the universe, Earth is obscure. From the video linked…
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William Herschel believes in ghosts!
picture from: www.redorbit.com One of my favorite moments in the Neil deGrasse Tyson-hosted show Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey takes place in the first moments of one of the first few episodes. It “flashes back” to the early 1800’s, showing a cartoon involving the famous astronomer William Herschel and his young son, John, walking along the […]
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Blog Post #1: What would happen if you threw a baseball at the speed of light?
This web page gives us the answer. Basically, if any object with mass were moving at that speed, especially within our …
Traveling Faster Than The Speed of Light
Can you possibly travel at a speed faster than the speed of light? Scientists think it might be possible even without violating Einstein’s theory that the speed of light is the “galactic speed limit.” Some theoretical models show that in the early stages of the universe, right after the Big Bang, space expanded at a […]
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Planets bigger than Earth beyond Pluto?
Could it be possible that planets larger than the size of Earth lie beyond Pluto? According to researchers, the behavior of far-out celestial bodies far from the sun (such as Sedna and Pluto), seems to suggest so. Such bodies, called “extreme trans-Neptunian objects” (or ETNO’s), should generally have an orbital distance of roughly 150 AU and […]
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