by Ethan Kwan | Jan 19, 2020 | Blog
so, in the hunt for exoplanets, the biggest surprise is few of them look like the earth. https://giphy.com/explore/happy-earth the most common type of planet around other stars is what is known as “super-earth.” a super-earth is a planet i=with a crushing...
by Ethan Kwan | Jan 18, 2020 | Blog
4.6 bln years ago: Earth forms & starts as a clump of dust, that gets struck by lightning! turns into rock, clumps with other asteroids and becomes a big ball. 4.5 by ago: protoplanet Theia collides with earth, creates moon. 4.4 bya: first atmosphere forms, made...
by Ethan Kwan | Jan 17, 2020 | Blog
so, around 4.5 billion years ago, a cloud, made up of hydrogen, collapsed, because of a supernova! it spun faster, and faster, and eventually, the center got so hot, that nuclear fusion started and the sun formed! around the sun, there was still a spinning disk. Over...
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 carl376 | Jan 13, 2020 | Blog, Home Learning, Homeschooling, Unschooling, 언스쿨링
This week marks the start of the winter term and Ethan was back at it with a new schedule and tasks for the week. Here’s what he did. Ethan started his activities again this week. He has taekwondo, violin, swimming, skating and nature school as his main...
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!...
by carl376 | Jan 5, 2020 | Blog, Home Learning, Homeschooling, Unschooling, 언스쿨링
Wow! Happy New Year! It’s been a relatively slow week for Ethan because of the holiday season. Plus, Ethan was banned from using the computer for almost 2 weeks so there was that, as well. The community centre had a special pass for the winter holidays where you...
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