by Ethan Kwan | Nov 24, 2020 | Blog
Image Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/S. Wiessinger If humans could travel to this giant planet, we would see a world still glowing from the heat of its formation with a color reminiscent of a dark cherry blossom, a dull magenta. Using infrared data from the...
by Ethan Kwan | Nov 19, 2020 | Blog
To start, think of a ball on a hill. A ball on a hill. it’s definitely NOT going down. The ball may stay up there for a LONNNG time, but eventually, its gonna come down. This is a property of space too! if Quantum Field Theory is Correct, then the universe is...
by Ethan Kwan | Nov 17, 2020 | Blog
Scientists using an instrument aboard NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN, or MAVEN, spacecraft have discovered that water vapor near the surface of the Red Planet is lofted higher into the atmosphere than anyone expected was possible. There, it is easily...
by Ethan Kwan | Nov 10, 2020 | Blog
Artist’s illustration of a star found in the closest orbit known around a black hole in the globular cluster named 47 Tucanae.Credits: X-ray: NASA/CXC/University of Alberta/A.Bahramian et al.; Illustration: NASA/CXC/M.Weiss Astronomers have found evidence for a...
by Ethan Kwan | Oct 27, 2020 | Blog
Four-and-a-half billion years ago, Earth’s surface was a menacing, hot mess. Long before the emergence of life, temperatures were scorching, and the air was toxic. Plus, as a mere toddler, the Sun bombarded our planet with violent outbursts of radiation called flares...
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