Researchers estimate that at least 325 billion metric tons would have been released by the impact. So what could have led to the extinction of dinosaurs also caused global firestorms that ravaged planet Earth. The impact of the giant asteroid…
Stellar Science
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Physics and Astronomy
Detecting Gravitational Waves From Binary Black Holes And Neutron Stars
by George Cronk April 28, 2019Gravitational-wave astronomy is an emerging branch of observational astronomy which aims to use gravitational waves (minute distortions of spacetime predicted by Einstein’s theory of general relativity) to collect observational data about objects such as neutron stars and black holes, events…
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Physics and Astronomy
A Billion Years | That’s The Theory Behind The Big Bang
by George Cronk April 20, 2019Massive stars die show that stars like the sun weren’t made planetaries. You can picture a snap shot of the early Universe, somewhere around 100,000 years after the Big Bang. The problem in the early universe was, even though things were cooling down, molecular…
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MESSENGER (MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging) is a NASA-sponsored scientific investigation of the planet Mercury and the first space mission designed to orbit the planet closest to the Sun. As the MESSENGER spacecraft orbited the tiny planet, the…
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Environmental and Earth
China’s Space Agency, CNSA Intends To Open The Mars
by Steffen Kohl April 18, 2019About 574,039 square feet (53,330 square meter) complex, called “Mars Base 1” and also known as “Mars Camp”, saw students try on space suits and wander around the surrounding desert where Martian Caves have been constructed. A Mars base simulator…
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Physics and Astronomy
Under General Relativity, A Black Hole Is Inescapable
by George Cronk January 25, 2019We Just Got Lab Made Evidence Of Stephen Hawking’s Greatest Prediction About Black Holes. Nothing, not even light, can escape from inside the event horizon. The black hole is the background spacetime for a quantum field theory. the heart of…
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Outer space
Artist’s Concept Of The Cassini Orbiter Crossing Saturn’s Ring Plane
by George Cronk January 24, 2019One of the last acts of NASA’s Cassini spacecraft before its death plunge into Saturn’s hydrogen and helium atmosphere was to coast between the planet and its rings and let them tug it around, essentially acting as a gravity probe.…
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The universe is still full of mystery! The history of general relativity as a science is actually rather dismal. These elusive ripples in the fabric of space – time were first predicted by Albert Einstein a century ago. The galaxy…
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Outer space
Milky Way Black Hole | The Two Galaxies Will Inevitably Collide
by George Cronk January 8, 2019Astronomers have long predicted that as many as 20,000 black holes could be hiding in our galaxy’s center, but so far no one has been able to spot them. For the first time, scientists have detected a gravitational wave produced by…
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Outer space
This Artist’s Impression Shows The Milky Way Galaxy | Dark Matter?
by George Cronk January 6, 2019Dwarf galaxies, of course, are much smaller galaxies that can be found orbiting larger ones around them. However, it is thought that the nature of dark matter may be better understood by looking at the formation of stars within galaxies.…