by Ethan Kwan | Jan 16, 2020 | Blog
The Hubble space telescope has made the first detection of water in the atmosphere of a planet 110 ly away orbiting in the habitable zone of a star 35% the size & luminosity of the sun. K2-28b, which is eight times the size of the Earth, is the first planet...
by Ethan Kwan | Jan 14, 2020 | Blog
NASA’s TESS mission discovered its first circumbinary planet, a world orbiting two stars instead of one. Named TOI 1338 b, it’s nearly the size of Saturn and orbits its stars every 95 days....
by Ethan Kwan | Jan 10, 2020 | Blog
NASA’s TESS mission has found its first earth-sized planet in the habitable zone of a star. this means the planet, called TOI 700 d , has the potential to be a water-covered planet. so, obviously, TOI 700 d’s parent star is TOI 700 (DUH). and TOI 700 is a...
by Ethan Kwan | Jan 8, 2020 | Blog
so, René Descartes was born on the 31st of March, 1596, and died on February 11, 1650. he is most known for his influence on philosophy, including several books, with two of them containing his famous quote, “I think, therefore I am.” (he was French so, in...
by Ethan Kwan | Jan 6, 2020 | Blog
so, our story begins with a big bang! no, not “the start of the universe,” a more “mild” bang. A supernova!this shockwave travels into a cloud, which promptly flattens it and creates a protostar in a “mere” 100,000 years!...
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