by Ethan Kwan | Oct 25, 2019 | Blog
so, there is a system called BD+20 307, and it is located about 300 light-years away. these stars are old, about a billion years old!but, there is still hot gas around it! A binary star system. which means that the hot gas was caused by two planets slamming into each...
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 carl376 | Oct 20, 2019 | algebra, Blog, Home Learning, Homeschooling, Unschooling, 언스쿨링
Here’s what happened in the past week with Ethan and unschooling. Something I should mention is that not many people are aware of unschooling, even though it’s been around since the 1970s. Many people have a perception of homeschooling as school at home,...
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 carl376 | Oct 13, 2019 | Blog, Home Learning, Homeschooling, Unschooling, 언스쿨링
Here’s what happened with Ethan this past week. Note to Natasha from Dong Eun: We appreciate all the links and thoughtfulness in providing resources to Ethan. We check all the things you send over the course of the week as they are really helpful. The resources...
by carl376 | Oct 10, 2019 | Blog, math, My Videos
Here’s a video Ethan made about pi versus tau. No idea what tau is? Check out the video to find...
by carl376 | Oct 6, 2019 | algebra, Blog, Home Learning, Homeschooling, Unschooling, 언스쿨링
This past week we ran into one of Ethan’s old classmates from elementary school while at the grocery store. The boy’s mother was quite interested in what Ethan is doing because she wasn’t aware that a self-directed learning option was available for...
by carl376 | Oct 5, 2019 | Blog, Home Learning, Homeschooling, My Videos, Unschooling, 언스쿨링
This video is about the end of the universe! ps, there is mabye some things that are distressing to some people. watch the first 37 seconds of the video for this...
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