Auroras are very bright displays of light in the sky which typically occur in the southern and northern regions of the Earth, also known as Arctic and Antarctic regions. Auroras are usually caused by the interaction between energetic charged particles…
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The Sun will be entering the peak of its 22-year cycle in 2013, so the next few years are certain to produce some memorable solar flares. Extreme solar flares have produced northern lights as far south as Hawai’i. While auroras…
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Electrolysis is the process by which electrical energy is freed from a substance to produce a charge that generates a non-spontaneous chemical reaction in another substance. An example of electrolysis is the flashlight battery. A negatively charged terminal is placed…
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Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the surface of another celestial body, was born in Wapakoneta, Ohio, on August 5, 1930, and passed away on Aug. 25, 2012. Despite the fact of his lifelong reticence to put himself…
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The periodic table is an organized table displaying chemical elements by their increasing atomic number. The table subdivides elements by their unique properties. The modern periodic table has expanded from the time the table’s creator Dmitri Mendeleev developed it to…
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The two newest editions to the periodic table are Flerovium, and Livermorium, which were both first synthesized over ten years ago. Only now have these new elements been accepted by the IUPAC, which is the International Union of Pure and…
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Mercury is the smallest planet in earth’s solar system as well as being the closest to the sun, and as such it poses unique difficulties when it comes to viewing the planet. Due to its position inside of earth’s orbit,…
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The definition of terminal velocity is, according to dictionary.com, “The velocity at which a falling body moves through a medium, as air, when the force of resistance of the medium is equal in magnitude and opposite in direction to the force of…
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Terminal velocity occurs when a falling object stops accelerating and falls at a constant speed. The word velocity itself refers to the rate that an object changes position. When an object falls there comes a time when it reaches a…
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Meteor showers are caused by small fragments of cosmic debris left out by the orbits of comets. This debris is encountered when the Earth´s orbit passes through that orbit, producing intense streams of light which very quickly disintegrate when they…
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