Author Archives: impossibleensign

Fermi’s paradox has some unsettling points depending on how you see the glass. Continue reading →

NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope is how we have found many exoplanets and have hoped to find more, however, the universe may have other plans… Continue reading →

Gravity? What causes Hot Jupiters to not be eaten by their parent stars? Continue reading →

You thought finding Waldo was hard, searching for life in the universe might be a little harder… Continue reading →

These are the voyages of the space probe New Horizons . Its continuing mission: to explore strange dwarf planets, to seek out new objects and new data sets, to boldly go where no probe has gone before… Continue reading →

Pharrell was probably thinking of bodies when he helped penned this hit for Nelly. Despite what the title may suggest I don’t think he had thermal radiation in mind… Continue reading →

Unlike Vegas, the effects of your space trip come back to Earth with you. Continue reading →

For this assignment I chose to focus on Tycho Brahe: Tycho Brahe (14DEC1546-24OCT1601) is arguably most important to astronomy (and physics) because of his observation of a supernova (SN 1572– which he called a “new star”). Before this observation people still clung to the Aristotelian view of the universe (and physics), Aristotle’s influence in other fields such […] Continue reading →

The Earth’s movement through space resembles that of a spinning top.. Continue reading →