by Ethan Kwan | Oct 22, 2019 | Blog
so, there is a galaxy, Gsn 069. and it’s located about 250 million light-years away. the galaxy contains a black hole that is 400,000 masses of the sun. a team of astronomers found x-ray bursts coming from it. the astronomers had never seen this before! so, that...
by Ethan Kwan | Oct 21, 2019 | Blog
so, the trappist-1 system has seven planets-trappist-1b,c,d,e,f,g, and h-and 3 of the planets are in the habitable zone! https://www.euronews.com/2017/02/23/4-reasons-why-the-discovery-of-the-trappist-1-star-system-is-important The Hubble space telescope as looked at...
by Ethan Kwan | Oct 18, 2019 | Blog
so, there is a star, called GJ 357, and TESS(the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satelite) found a planet around it! https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13266 of course, scientists had to confirm it. tess finds its planets by looking for little dops in starlight....
by Ethan Kwan | Oct 15, 2019 | Blog
so, there is an asteroid headed for earth. what do you do? well, it depends on the size of the asteroid, and when its gonna hit. yes, it’s that bad. the best is…a 500m asteroid with the impact 10 y away. so, the Earth goes the length of its diameter every...
by Ethan Kwan | Oct 1, 2019 | Blog
so, there is a star, WASP-121, that is hotter and brighter then the sun-because it fuses hydrogen into helium more quickly-and it has a hot Jupiter. what is a hot Jupiter? well, here is a diagram. early when a star forms, there is a lot of gas around it, but also some...
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