Physical Science

The Andromeda Galaxy is the closest major galaxy to our own home, the Milky Way Galaxy. Like our own, it is a spiral galaxy, meaning the core is orbited by massive “arms,” or bands of star-rich regions. Together with a…
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Eight thousand light years from the Earth, the star Eta Carinae is in its death throes. This is a binary star system with a luminous blue variable star in the last stages of its life, which could explode into a…
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If you’ve read or watched any science fiction the odds are good that at some point you have come across the concept of a black hole. These are scattered across science fiction stories and while sometimes there is a cursory…
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First Contact: A Short Study  When we think of first contact with a non-human civilisation, we imagine them either landing on the White House lawn, appearing over our cities in massive ships or sneaking into our bedrooms at night scaring…
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We are starting to talk about going to Mars more and more every day.  Many still want to put all our efforts into building on the moon and others want to expand and create more space stations.  But when it’s…
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What to do if you see a UFO depends on many different factors.  Over the years I have seen many unusual aerial phenomena, some of which are beyond all doubt unidentified flying objects (UFOs). I have described my encounters with…
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What would it take to travel to the Planet Mars?  What are the dangers that one would face if such a journey where possible? And, also, what would be the psychological effects on the human mind, as well as the…
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A universe by any other name Man may be fascinated by the universe, but the thing that fascinates me is that our universe has no name. If our universe was to have a name, what would it be? We’ve named…
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Edwin P. Hubble (1889-1953) is one of the most important historical American astronomers. He was responsible for the confirmation that stars and other galaxies existed far beyond our own Milky Way Galaxy, and – using the principle of the red…
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Even since there was human life on the planet Earth, man has looked at the moon in the night sky and wondered how it was created. Scientists and astronomers have pondered this question for centuries as well. There are three…
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