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Alien Life: Top 10 Places To Find

Alien Life: Top 10 Places To Find

Are We Alone, Really? The race to find intelligent life, or any life at all, beyond Earth has been a heated space scramble for decades. Even though no concrete evidence of extraterrestrials has ever been confirmed, it seems like every space probe ever launched and scheduled to launch has a "FIND LIFE" stamped in its mission.

That isn't to say we don't have our theories for where life might be hidin...

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STAR

STAR

What is a Star?  Look up in the night sky and you’ll see lots of stars. But what is a star? In a scientific sense, a star is ball of hydrogen and helium with enough mass that it can sustain nuclear fusion at its core. Our Sun is a star, of course, but they can come in different sizes and colors. So let’s learn what a star is.

75% of the matter in the Universe is hydrogen and 23% is helium; thes...

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Planet

Planet

What is the definition of a planet?  Technically, there was never a scientific definition of the term Planet before 2006. When the Greeks observed the sky thousands of years ago, they discovered objects that acted differently than stars. These points of light seemed to wander around the sky throughout the year. We get the term "planet" from the Greek word "Planetes" - meaning wanderer.

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Galaxy

Galaxy

What is a galaxy?  Galaxies are large systems of stars and interstellar matter, typically containing several million to some trillion stars, of masses between several million and several trillion times that of our Sun, of an extension of a few thousands to several 100,000s light years, typically separated by millions of light years distance. They come in a variety of flavors: Spiral, lenticula...

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Black Hole

Black Hole

What is a Black hole?  Black holes are the densest, most massive singular objects in the universe. Formed in one of three main processes, they exert so much gravitational force that nothing - not even light - can escape their pull. Since nothing can ever come out, it is called a hole. Since not even light nor other electromagnetic radiation can escape, it is called a black hole.

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Avatar: Real of Fantasy?

Avatar: Real of Fantasy?

The science fiction blockbuster "Avatar" is set on a mysterious alien moon with out-of-this-world technologies. Its star director, James Cameron, has not only directed other science fiction epics like "Aliens, The Abyss" and the first two "Terminator" films, but was apparently the president of his high school science club, a physics major in college and has an engineer brother who has designed und...

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15 Mar 13 in News
Most Earth like planet

Most Earth like planet

KOI 172.02 is 1.5x the size of our planet, and a year on it lasts 242 days  A possible alien planet discovered by NASA's Kepler space teles...

15 Mar 13 in Articles
Life on Titan

Life on Titan

Life On Saturn's Moon Titan: Stand Well Back and Hold Your Nose!   Research by astrobiologist William Bains suggests that if life has evolved on th...

15 Mar 13 in Learning
What is an extrasolar planet?

What is an extrasolar planet?

extrasolar planet, also called exoplanet,  any planetary body that is outside the solar system and that usually orbits a star other than the Sun....

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book review NightWatch: A Practical Guide to Viewing the Universe

The first three editions of NightWatch sold more than 600,000 copies, making it the top-selling stargazing guide in the world for the last 20 years. The key feature of this classic title is the section of star charts that are cherished by backyard astronomers... Read More

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