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Extrasolar Planets and How to Find Them

Posted on November 18, 2024 by Justinc

Extrasolar planets are planets that are found outside the Solar System. Stars are relatively easier to find than extrasolar planets as they are generally bigger and luminous (give off light). But planets, neither generate much light nor are they as big as stars so how do scientists find them? Well there are four main ways […] Continue reading →

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Are There Planets Outside of Our Solar System?

Posted on November 18, 2024 by Matthew Marcus

The answer to this question is a resounding yes. Before the Copernican Revolution, back when many cultures still believed the Earth to be the center of the universe, the fact that these exoplanets exist would have been largely unthinkable. But today, well over 5,000 exoplanets have been discovered. When these distant bodies have eluded us […] Continue reading →

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Space Weather and Technology

Posted on November 17, 2024 by Michael

The field of space physics is becoming extremely important due to society’s increasing reliance on technologies that can be affected by space weather. Aviation, GPS, internet, and the power grid are just a few examples of infrastructure that may be damaged or even destroyed in a large-scale space weather event. Posing potentially lethal hazards, this […] Continue reading →

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How Do Spacecraft Move?

Posted on November 17, 2024 by Henry Wang

We’ve all seen videos of spacecraft launching: 3, 2, 1, Blastoff! The main booster rocket burns a tremendous amount of energy to escape Earth’s gravity, reaching terminal velocity. Rocket Launch But when they enter space, this much force is wholly unnecessary, there is no gravitational field to escape, so how do spaceships move? The main […] Continue reading →

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Giant Planets

Posted on November 17, 2024 by jasonljohnson465

Image from NASA In our Solar System, the giant planets are the outer four of the eight planets, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. In other words, they are the Jovian planets. However, these planets are split into two categories of giant planets: gas giant and ice giant. While all four of the planets are gaseous […] Continue reading →

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The ‘Grand Tack’ Hypothesis

Posted on November 17, 2024 by Alekzander Waller

The Grand Tack hypothesis theorizes that Jupiter formed much farther out from the sun than it currently is, migrated inwards quite a bit due to interactions with the early solar nebula, and then back out a little ways (imitating a tack, the maneuver where a sailboat changes direction). Of all of the fascinating facts and […] Continue reading →

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JWST’s Revolutionary Discoveries

Posted on November 15, 2024 by Leo Silva

Since its launch on December 25th, 2021 and arrival at its final “positioning” on July 11th, 2022 (Wikimedia, Timeline of James Webb Space Telescope), the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has made a myriad of revolutionary findings that challenge our previous understanding/theories of the Universe. Due to its intentional design aimed at helping us understand […] Continue reading →

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Blog 06 – Antennae Galaxies

Posted on November 15, 2024 by Mercedes

The image of the Antennae Galaxies released May 19, 2008 NASA article. Please refer to this photo when reading the following blog post- specific aspects of the image are mentioned. The Hubble Heritage Collection released a photo in 2008 that showed a shocking image of the Antennae Galaxies. While it may just look like a […] Continue reading →

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Binary Star Systems.

Posted on November 15, 2024 by Elias Ibrahim

A binary star system A binary star system is a pair of stars which orbit a common center of mass. In fact, they are quite common in the universe. Types of Binary Star Systems Visual Binaries: Such a binary system can be resolved as two separate stars using a telescope. Spectroscopic binaries: here, the components would be close enough to one another that it would not be possible to visually distinguish the two. […] Continue reading →

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Comets: What are they?

Posted on November 13, 2024 by Catherine Sack

Comets are icy, small bodies containing rock, frozen gases, and dust. Referred to as “cosmic snowballs”, comets are found in the outer parts of the solar system like the Kuiper Belt or the Oort Cloud. A comet is made up of 3 parts: nucleus, coma, and tail. The nucleus is its icy center. The coma […] Continue reading →

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