Space Discoveries

Geocentric and heliocentric Theories
Our understanding of the solar system has changed over many centuries. Scientists such as Ptolemy, Copernicus and Galileo added their ideas to our changing understanding. We observe the universe using a variety of equipment, from telescopes to orbiters and landers. The planets and the Sun orbit the Earth…
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Planets 2014
Topics: Trans-neptunian objects, solar system formation, explaining science, dwarf planets beyond Neptune Chad Trujillo and Scott Sheppard have discovered an incredibly distant body in an unusual location in the solar system. The discovery was reported today in a Minor Planet Electronic Circular and…
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Latest outer Space News
The June 20 issue of SpaceNews Magazin e, landing in mailboxes and email inboxes this week, features a special tribute to Patti Grace Smith and a five-page special report on the burgeoning satellite servicing sector — plus a Q&A with Tom Wilson of Space Logistics LLC, the Orbital ATK-back satellite-servicing venture that’s arguably the furthest along. The new issue…
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Astronomical bodies list
Within the Solar System: outside the Solar System: What s up in the sky this month: courtesy of Of course the Sun is within the Solar System and is a star, however as we are talking primarily about night sky observing I have not included it. It will be discussed in the section on stars, plus the Sun should never be directly looked at ever and especially with a telescope or…
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New discoveries in Earth Science
Scientists have now demonstrated that Earth and other planetary objects that formed in the early years of the Solar System share similar chemical origins - a finding at odds with accepted wisdom held by scientists for decades. Credit: Image courtesy of Image courtesy of Western University A new study led by Western University s all-star cosmochemist Audrey Bouvier proves that…
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Latest News about Universe
The cosmos has no special direction that might be used to define a universal up,according to a new study. Eerik/iStockphoto Ever peer into the night sky and wonder whether space is really the same in all directions or whether the cosmos might be whirling about like a vast top? Now, one team of cosmologists has used the oldest radiation there is, the afterglow of the big bang…
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Latest discovery News
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Galileo the scientist
Galileo the establisher of modern science by Enikõ Biróné Kabály, mathematics-physics teacher, Reformed Secondary Grammar School, Debrecen PhD-student, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary In the secondary grammar school where I teach there are only few students who are interested in physics and would like to go to higher education with science subjects. That s why…
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