Physical Science

Educated thinking people can be divided into a myriad of groupings. One of the more obvious is the “Liberal Arts” crowd and the “Science and Engineering” crowd. Interestingly, members of these groups tend to walk to a different drum from…
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The best way to find out if there is life on other planets is to go looking for it. This is an important motivation behind JPL’s Mars Rover missions. Another way is to listen for inter-stellar radio broadcasts, like the…
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Let’s dig right in to three great projects: YOU ARE A ROCKET Elementary aged kids are eager to learn. It is one of my favorite things about teaching them. However, they are even more eager to run and play. Let’s…
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Kids love to look at the stars and dream about exploring distant galaxies. Stargazing with your children in the backyard is a great way to spend a summer evening, but that doesn’t have to be the end of it. Don’t…
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In the process of exploring the universe, the Hubble telescope, in an 11.6 day period, observed 10,000 galaxies. This brief peek into the unknown, confirmed what we already knew, that the number of galaxies are endless, and, that they come …
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Star constellations are groups or clusters of stars with peculiar arrangements that suggest to professional and amateur viewers ways of identifying, for guidelines, or how to more efficiently maneuver their star gazing jaunts. In all, according to The International Astronomical…
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Saturn has been a source of interest and mystery since man first noticed it in the heavens. It definitely has an abundance of moons of all shapes and sizes, including what are commonly called shepherd moons. Shepherd moons are small…
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Headlines that life has been found on Mars were a little premature, and for many people, brought to mind the kind of Martian life that we have only encountered in sci-fi movies. However, there is a possibility that since there…
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Johannes Kepler was a German astronomer, working at the beginning of the 17th century. By building on the work of Copernicus and Tycho Brahe, Kepler advanced our understanding of the solar system immeasurably. His main contributions to science were the three…
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The words “shepherd moon” may bring to mind flocks grazing along green meadows in the moonlight night; however, when applied to celestial bodies, the term brings about another image.  Our solar system is home to many phenomenal objects, but the…
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