Physical Science

Ganymede is not only the largest of Jupiter’s moons, but the largest moon in our solar system Ganymede is actually larger than two of the planets – Mercury and Pluto. Discoveries about its possible oceans and atmosphere have proved of…
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The Kuiper Belt is an elliptical shaped region of space beyond the orbit of Neptune extending roughly from 30 to 50 astronomical units from the Sun, containing a large number of relatively small icy bodies. The makeup of these Kuiper…
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Gravitational redshift, along with its complete opposite, gravitational blueshift, create a spectrum, which attempts to describe the human’s ability to correctly understand light, time, and gravity. One approach to the explanation of gravitational redshift would be to continue to use…
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An astronomical explanation of the summer solstice was first put forward in the 1500s and 1600s by the astronomers Nicolaus Copernicus, Johannes Kepler and Galileo Galilei who disagreed that the earth was at the center of everything. They insisted that…
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Everyone who has studied elementary science is quite aware of Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity and how gravity affects light.  All observations made by astronomers and astrophysicists are made due to light emitted from galaxies, stars and all other…
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The Kuiper Belt, also known as the Edgeworth-Kuiper Belt, is a region that extends beyond the orbit of the planet Neptune to approximately 50 astronomical units (AU) from the sun.  It is composed of small bodies and components from the…
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EXPANSION AND DAMNATION (The Expansion of the Universe) The common-sense wisdom of the working man states, “You’re damned if you do, and you’re damned if you don’t.” The same can be said for the expansion of the universe. If the…
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The day of the closest SuperMoon in 2012 (May 5 or May 6, depending on location), arrived with less fanfare than the March 19, 2010, SuperMoon: an astronomical event that, according to many in 2011, only occurs once every 18…
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Pictures of Jupiter, a large gas planet in the outer portion of our solar system, show a characteristic striping pattern, a contrasting red and brown-orange against the beige and lighter orange of the planet’s atmosphere. These stripes are areas of…
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The word Binary tells you there must be two stars involved. These two stars, together in a system, revolve round some common point. This point is the center of mass according to Kepler’s Laws. If you can see the stars…
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