Unschooling Journal November 1-7, 2020

Unschooling Journal November 1-7, 2020

Sorry if you tried to access the site this past week and couldn’t. We were switching web hosting companies and it took much longer than expected to migrate everything over. We’re still uploading photos so I’m sure many posts will look a bit odd until...
Earth and Moon Once shared a Magnetic Field!

Earth and Moon Once shared a Magnetic Field!

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...
You’ve Got A Little Vesta On You…

You’ve Got A Little Vesta On You…

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...

The Recipe For Powerful Quasar Jets

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....