Physical Science

Time; what is time? By definition time is: an instance or single occasion for some event; however, that does not nearly clarify the question of what is time. The answer to this question varies according to the person you ask….
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Disasters happen in space. The Soviets lost Cosmonauts and NASA lost astronauts during the Apollo and Space Shuttle programs. But forward thinking is something NASA normally excels at and now the US space agency is taking a second look at…
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Neil Armstrong, 81, is a pioneer, hero, astronaut, and the first human to set foot upon another world. He’s also disgusted. The man with the “right stuff” has had it with the direction America is going in space and he…
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Space is big. Really big. Even the most inept science-fiction highlights the immense nature of space as a silent empty void which consists mostly of not very much at all. But astronomers are now challenging this view of space as…
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Hypernovae and supernovae both begin their lives as stars that are very similar to our own sun.  In order to properly analyze their existence, we should start by describing a supernova. When a massive star is no longer able to…
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Tuesday, August 28, 2007. I was up at the time my army friend Captain Fay refers to as “OH-DARK-THIRTY” (about 4:30am) and headed outside to take a look at the setting Moon, which was still bright white. Knowing the lunar…
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Stunning evidence has emerged that the Earth avoided a cosmic bullet that could have wiped out the entire human race less than 130 years ago. A new study done at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México revealed the amazingly close…
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Solar storm “forecasts” are causing increasing anxiety for all who depend on delicate electronic hardware, the power grids and the Internet. If the most powerful type of solar storm were to hit the Earth, the problems would range from widespread…
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In the field of optical telescopy, two different methods are used to magnify distant objects; each through the principles of refraction or reflection. Consequently, the two varieties of optical telescopes available are known as the refracting telescope or the reflecting…
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“What we’ve found is not normal, based on either observational studies or on computer simulations of the large-scale evolution of the Universe,” said associate professor Liliya Williams, University of Minnesota. Recently the University of Minnesota astronomers were surprised to find…
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