Why Does The Moon Look Close Some Nights And Far Away On Other Nights?

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If you’ve ever gone outside to gaze at the night sky, you might’ve already noticed that the Moon looks so close and huge on some nights. But on other nights, it seems far away and is back to looking like its usual size. Such a mysterious sight, right? So how does this happen? Here’s the […]

Rest of the Constellations

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Today I am finishing the constellations in the Northern Hemisphere. Enjoy! Gemini resembles twin brothers holding hands. The brightest stars in Gemini are Castor and Pollux. In the winter and spring, you can see the twins walking on one of the spiral arms of the Milky Way. Gemini Orion If you look toward the south […]

Even More Constellations!

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When the sun sets at night, assorted constellations reveal themselves against the black soup of space. As the night progresses, some of these constellations set below the horizon, and others rise to take their places. The parade of constellations continues all night long until the sun rises again and obscures the stars from our sight. […]

Classifying Stars – Color and Catagories

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Analyzing Appearance Astronomers refer to the brightness of a star as its magnitude. There are two ways to describe the magnitude: Actual brightness- how much light it produces Apparent brightness- the light as seen from Earth For example, a small flashlight seen from a few feet away seems brighter than a car’s headlights seen from two […]

The Story of Andromeda

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On a dark, cloudless night, we can see thousands of stars scattered across the inky black soup of night. If you look at the stars long enough, you might imagine that you can see simple pictures of people, animals, weapons, and much more. The stars outlining an imaginary picture are called constellations. Queen Cassiopeia Although […]

Should We Live In Outer Space

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Many people want to live in outer space, especially on the moon and on mars. But my opinion says it is not good to live in outer space for certain reasons. My reasons are: We don’t know what the effect to humans in outer space is for the long term. We don’t know how our […]

What It Is Like In Outer Space

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Have you ever wondered what outer space is like? If you were to travel there, you would find the environment rather unfriendly. Conditions in space are much different from what they are on the surface on the earth. If you were to ride in a spacecraft upward, the surrounding air would soon become so thin […]

The Stellar Engine

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Hello everyone. This post is about a Stellar Engine. So what is a Stellar Engine? It is something that is capable of moving the entire solar system. I will not go into too much detail because this is still just fiction. Okay. Even though it is still science fiction, I will continue exploring what is […]

Study Finds Astronauts Who Came Back From Space Struggle To Recover Bone Density

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Astronauts go to the International Space Station (ISS), living there for months to conduct scientific experiments, gather data for analysis on Earth, and maintain the station. But have you ever wondered about some of the things astronauts experience while living there? When astronauts spend six months or longer in space, they lose decades’ worth of […]

Apollo 11- #5 Alarms

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BAM! Suddenly, the master alarm in the lunar module (LM) rang out for attention with all the racket of a fire bell going off in a broom closet. “Program alarm,” astronaut Neil Armstrong called out from the LM in a clipped but calm voice. “It’s a twelve-oh-two.” “1202,” repeated astronaut Buzz Aldrin. They were 33,500 […]

Quasars

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Quasars are still an unsolved mystery from scientists. Are quasars real? They are similar to stars that “throw” radiologic (high-energy radiation) signals. Quasars were discovered in 1960. It is believed that they could be 18 million light years away from us. Their existence is found by their interaction/lighting with other things in the universe. It […]

Apollo 11- #4 The Maiden Voyage

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“The Eagle has wings!” radioed Neil Armstrong from the lunar module as he and Buzz Aldrin flew sixty-nine miles above the moon. Four words. There was no doubt of their meaning: The lunar module Eagle had separated from the command module Columbia and was now flying solo. It was ready to descent onto the moon. Big smiles back on Earth, back […]

Apollo 11- #3 And Upward..

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Space… it’s dangerous out there: micrometeoroids, radiation, airlessness. And coming home would be no picnic, either. The compact-car-sized space capsule would be greeted by searing white-hot flames as it slammed madly back down to earth. “In designing the command module, the one thing we had to be sure of was that we could keep the […]