Astronomy

Despite Copernicus’ book being six volumes, it is still similar to Ptolemy’s book, Almagest. The Church did not take any definite stand with Copernicus’ book since it was dedicated to the Pope and thought of only as a “hypothesis” due to the false forward by Osianderuntil the Reformation and scientific discoveries like Galileo’s, was it…

Objects with a starlike composition but too small to initiate nuclear reactions may also exist in the universe, helping to account for the “missing mass” of COSMOLOGY theories (see BROWN DWARF). Mass More than half of all stars are BINARY STARS–two or more stars that orbit one another. About 100 orbits have been measured accurately….

Native American Astronomy For many years astronomers and people alike have constantly heard about the observations and records of the Chinese and Europeans. No other culture can provide as much information as that gathered by the Chinese and Europeans, but there are many other cultures that observed and recorded the night sky, one of those…

Some people live their lives focused on the present. Then there are those who constantly look ahead, striving to achieve greater things in the future. Regardless of how you look at life, one thing is the same for all of us: time. Time is a train that keeps on chugging no matter what; we are…

Into the Depths of A Black Hole Every day we look out upon the night sky, wondering and dreaming of what lies beyond our planet. The universe that we live in is so diverse and unique, and it interests us to learn about all the variance that lies beyond our grasp. Within this marvel of…

In 1929 he showed that galaxies are moving away from us with a speed proportional to their distance. The explanation is simple, but revolutionary: the Universe is expanding. Hubble was born in Missouri in 1889. His family moved to Chicago in 1898, where at High School he was a promising, though not exceptional, pupil. He…

Anti-Matter Introduction Ordinary matter has negatively charged electrons circling a positively charged nuclei. Anti-matter has positively charged electrons – positrons – orbiting a nuclei with a negative charge – anti-protons. Only anti-protons and positrons are able to be produced at this time, but scientists in Switzerland have begun a series of experiments which they believe…

Direct solar power is an energy resource that has been and will continue to be a part of a very long and persistent issue. There are so many solar energy companies out there nowadays that have made it more available for people around the world to access this amazing resource. Especially in the United States,…