Space Discoveries
New discoveries About space
IT MAY turn out to be a bare and barren rock. The fact that liquid water could be flowing across the surface of the planet just discovered orbiting Proxima Centauri, the nearest star to the sun, does not mean that any actually is—nor for that matter that it has an atmosphere. The fact that water and…
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Astronomy Space
Saturn’s moon Titan is the only world - other than earth - that we know has liquid’s pooled on its surface. Unlike Earth, Titan has lakes of liquid methane - you wouldn’t want to swim in these lakes. Titan’s “methane cycle” is analogy to Earth’s water cycle. In the 3rd and 4th images above we can see…
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History of Galileo
“Galileo was part of a broad, cosmopolitan culture that was equally interested in science, art and literature.” Jürgen Renn, Director at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. “Galileo was part of a broad, cosmopolitan culture that was equally interested in science, art and literature.”…
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Galileo work
Young Galileo This was the climate into which Galileo Galilei emerged to pioneer a new world system. Born at Pisa, Italy, on 16 February 1564, his father, Vincenzo Galilei, was a renowned composer who instigated his own revolution in the arts by disputing the current theories on the structure of music…
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Space and Astronomy News
The brightest supernova ever detected was about 100 times brighter than the flash of typical dying star (Image: iStockphoto) Astronomers analysing the brightest supernova ever detected say the titanic flare has reshaped thinking about the death struggle of gigantic stars. > more Australia may gain a National Space Science Institute and send a spacecraft to a fiery death…
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Planetary or solar system model
The planets of the solar system as depicted by a NASA computer illustration. Orbits and sizes are not shown to scale. Credit: NASA Ever since the discovery of Pluto in 1930, kids grew up learning about the nine planets of our solar system. That all changed starting in the late 1990s, when astronomers began to argue about whether Pluto was a planet. In a highly controversial…
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What Planets are habitable?
A picture of Earth and artist s interpretations of several exoplanets that could be like our own. From left: artist s impressions of Kepler-22b, Kepler-69c, Kepler-452b, Kepler-62f and Kepler-186f. A picture of Earth is at far right. Credit: NASA/Ames/JPL-Caltech Discovering the first true alien Earth is a long-held dream of astronomers — and recent exoplanet discoveries…
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Famous Italian astronomers
Giovanni Cassini was a 17th century Italian mathematician, astronomer and astrologer. This biography of Giovanni Cassini provides detailed information about his childhood, life, achievements, works & timeline. Quick Facts Famous as Astronomer and Mathematician Nationality religion Catholicism Born on Sun Sign Born in Perinaldo Died on mother Julia Crovesi Spouse/Partner:…
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