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...
by carl376 | Oct 25, 2020 | Blog, Home Learning, Homeschooling, Unschooling, 언스쿨링
Here’s what happened this past week with Ethan… Hi! This is Ethan! This week, I worked on EMF and brilliant, and I also kept going with swimming lessons, taekwondo classes, violin lessons, symphony rehearsal, and… ROLLER BLADING! (That isn’t...
by Ethan Kwan | Oct 22, 2020 | Blog
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/bennu-top-ten It appears that some pieces of asteroid Vesta ended up on asteroid Bennu, according to OSIRIS-REx, aka Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith EXplorer. The new result sheds...
by Ethan Kwan | Oct 20, 2020 | Blog
Quasar with jet and magnetic lines. Credit: CXC/M.Weiss, https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/chandra/images/the-recipe-for-powerful-quasar-jets.html Some supermassive black holes launch powerful beams of material, or jets, away from them, while others do not....
by carl376 | Oct 18, 2020 | Blog, Home Learning, Homeschooling, Unschooling, 언스쿨링
As we reach the middle of October, Ethan has started to get into the groove of his learning activities. There’s always an adjustment period between the end of summer and getting back into a routine for learning. This is in spite of the fact that Ethan had a...
by Ethan Kwan | Oct 15, 2020 | Blog
Credit: NASA web site: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/chandra/images/index.html Astronomers have discovered what can happen when a giant black hole does not intervene in the life of a galaxy cluster. using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes they...
by Ethan Kwan | Oct 13, 2020 | Blog
Credits: X-ray: NASA/CXO/CSIC-INTA/G.Miniutti et al.; Illustration: NASA/CXC/M. Weiss; astronomers may have discovered a new kind of survival story: a star had a brush with a black hole and lived to tell the tale. Data from NASA’s Chandra X – ray...
by Ethan Kwan | Oct 12, 2020 | Blog
Here’s what happened to Ethan this past week. This week was FUN! Like, everything was fun. MATH,CHEMISTRY,SWIMMING, VIOLIN, PIANO, AND SO ON! I am now doing swimming two times a week. I also do taekwondo two times a week, and I’ve been studying with books...
by Ethan Kwan | Oct 8, 2020 | Blog
Most galaxies cluster int groups, and our Milky Way is no different, being one of the 30 that make up the Local Group. So, lets look at the really interesting galaxies in the Local Group! Andromeda: Wowie… Quick Facts: Also Called: M31, NGC 224 Type: Spiral...
by Ethan Kwan | Oct 6, 2020 | Blog
This artist’s impression shows a view of the surface of the planet Proxima b orbiting the red dwarf star Proxima Centauri, the closest star to the Solar System. The double star Alpha Centauri AB also appears in the image to the upper-right of Proxima itself. Proxima b...
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