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Tag Archives: blog8
Astronomy and its Misconceptions
I was browsing earlier and decided to think back on some of the assumptions I had about our Solar System before beginning this class. I stumbled upon this page and was proud to say that although I was not THAT clueless, I was guilty of some of the common misconceptions about Astronomy. It was interesting to … Continue reading »
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TESS: a New Eye in the Sky
NASA has a new project set to launch in 2017 and it’s going to be big. The TESS project will be tasked with the most trendy task in astronomy these days: finding exoplanets. Using a slew of wide-view cameras, TESS will peer tirelessly at the stars looking for “transits,” or dips in brightness when an […]
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Posted in Exoplanets, Instruments
Tagged blog8, technology, TESS
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Orbital Resonance and the Asteroid Belt
Why is it that all of the matter in the inner solar system accreted to form planets, while in between Mars and Jupiter there is still a bunch of stuff […]
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Social Astronomy!
I am always interested in new ways that information, ideas and stories can be shared or exchanged online. I love all forms of social media including blogs, tumblr, twitter, google plus, you name it. It always helps me learn a new concept if I have a variety of ways to interact with the subject, like […]
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Posted in Universe
Tagged astro201, astronomy, blog8, google, social media, Solar System, twitter
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A Sea of Metal
Jupiter’s Composition Jupiter freaks me out. It is huge, big enough to greatly affect the path of any smaller body that is unfortunate enough to cross its path, with potentially adversarial results for Earth. Even more so is its composition. Should you be unfortunate enough to find yourself on a ship heading towards where the […]
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A Comet Heads For Mars
NASA has discovered that there is “small but non-negligible” chance that Comet 2013 A1 will strike Mars in October of 2014. The comet is between 1 to 3 kilometers in […]
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Posted in Small SS Objects
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A Breakthrough in Space Travel
There is currently a project underway which aims to send astronauts in a fusion powered spacecraft to Mars and cutting the travel time to just 30 days round trip. Using existing rocket fuels it would take at least 4 years to travel the same round trip and would cost more than $12 billion. Using this […]
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Binary (Double Star) Systems
If you’ve ever seen any kind of sci-fi movie, I’m sure you’ve seen an example of a binary star system. Countless space movies (most notably Star Wars) feature an alien sky with more than one Sun. While the effect is usually dramatized in film, these binary star systems are in fact very real. A binary […]
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Posted in Observables, Physics, Stars
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Comets
Near Earth Experience The snowballs of the universe, comets are amazing bodies of ice and rock orbiting a star from a great distance. In our own solar system, these balls of ice mostly inhabit an area known as the Oort Cloud. This outer region surrounds our solar system from all different directions. Because the cloud […]
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M-theory Might Explain Everything
Have you ever thought about the Big Bang? And what might have happened before it? If you have come to blindly accept the widely accepted theory about how our universe was created, you might have missed the various loopholes the theory presents. For instance, the Big Bang theory states that before the huge explosion took […]
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Tagged astro201, blog8, dimensions, m-theory, parallel universes, String Theory
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