Physical Science

The planet Jupiter is a hot gas giant in fifth place out from the sun.  It is the largest of the sun’s satellites, being over 300 times larger than Earth.  Easily visible from UK, it appears at night as a…
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Hydrogen is more plentiful in our universe than all other chemicals; it makes up three-fourth of all mass.Helium is formed from the activity of the stars when their hydrogen atoms interact while in the process of forming energy. Helium, thus,…
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The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) has announced the discovery of a “giant underground chamber” not far from the Lunar equator. The mysterious chamber is located in the Oceanus Procellarum region of the Moon. The gigantic, sublunar cavern was spotted…
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Is this really true? No life out there nothing but big empty void filled with darkness and we are the only ones shedding light into everything? If this is true then the views of the universe would be really different….
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Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is an anticyclonic storm. This type of storm is a weather storm where winds around the storm form contrary to the Coriolis effect. It is located at 22 degrees south of Jupiter’s equater. This storm is…
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There will actually be a robot on the Moon one day. It will look around as it moves for a short distance and it will send back high definition video if Google has anything to say about it. The exciting…
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A Hertzsprung-Russell diagram (sometimes abbreviated to “HR diagram”) is essentially a description of the different types of stars. Devised around one hundred years ago by scientists Ejnar Hertzsprung and Henry Norris Russell, it plots the spectral class of numbers of…
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The Planet Neptune is a cold gas giant, in eighth place away from the Sun.  It is 17 times bigger then the Earth and 30 times further from the sun.  It consists of a rocky core covered by ice, with…
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Imagine a hurricane with 350 mile-an-hour winds that stayed in one place for more than 400 years! Picture that storm so big that three planets the size of earth could fit in it! Believe it or not such a storm…
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Stars come in many varieties and ages. Red giants, white dwarfs, and the multitude of main sequence stars all have important differences. Anyone who knows how to read a Hertzsprung-Russell diagram can categorize a star by where it falls on…
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