Pick up the pace! Slow walkers four times more likely to die from COVID-19
Slow walkers are almost four times more likely to die from COVID-19 and have over twice the risk of contracting…
Comet Impact Enables Probe of Jupiter’s Winds
Scientists at the European Southern Observatory are describing newly observed wind processes on Jupiter as “a unique meteorological beast.” I…
BINARY BLACK HOLE
A binary black hole is a system consisting of two black holes in close orbit around each other. Like black…
New data challenges the long-held theory that all of Mars’s water escaped into space
Billions of years ago, the Red Planet was far more blue; according to evidence still found on the surface, abundant…
Comet Galaxy
The Comet Galaxy, a spiral galaxy located 3.2 billion light-years from Earth, in the galaxy cluster Abell 2667, was found…
The Meteor Crater
Meteor Crater is probably the most famous impact crater on the Earth’s surface. Located in Arizona, it has a diameter…
Star Formation – Part II
On the first part we saw some basic historic concepts about star formation (i.e. Jeans mass). We then went through…
What is the Planck constant
The Planck constant, or Planck’s constant, is the quantum of electromagnetic action that relates a photon’s energy to its frequency….
Copeland’s Septet
Copeland’s Septet (also known as Arp 320, VV 282, and Hickson Compact group 57) is a group of galaxies, located…
Star Formation – Part I
In the introduction of this section, we saw star formation in a nutshell. Thus, the crucial details of the process…