Category Archives: Space

4.13.2013

by Dani Johnson

Solar System: Pale Blue Uranus

Uranus is a spectacular planet in our Solar System that scientists still don’t know much about. It is the seventh planet from our sun and it shares the title of Ice Giant with only Neptune. We’ve only had one space / read more…

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4.10.2013

by Jennie Burd

So You Want To Go To Mars?

This year, a number of privately run organizations have been publicizing plans for manned missions to Mars, making the Curiosity rover feel undervalued and generally morose. But if you’re like me and you’ve spent a significant amount of time gorging / read more…

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Mercury Rising

There were two interesting news stories last month about Mercury. Closest to our Sun, it’s a bit bigger as our Moon. Due to its proximity to the Sun, it’s one of the hotter places in our solar system (although Venus / read more…

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4.4.2013

by Dani Johnson

The Moons of Saturn: Iapetus

  These two global images of Iapetus show the extreme brightness dichotomy on the surface of this peculiar Saturnian moon. Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

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Telescope in the sky

Imagine that you can get your hands on a Boeing 747. What would you do? Well, probably not what NASA did: they cut a 10-by-10 foot hole in the back of the airplane, and installed a big telescope in it.

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3.8.2013

by Dani Johnson

Powers of Ten

I believe my co-workers and I have been passing an awful cold around lately. It’s my turn, now, so please pardon my brevity.

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There are more things in heaven and earth …

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. Hamlet, to Horatio Ah, Shakespeare. I’m not a native English speaker, so I probably missed out on

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2.15.2013

by Dani Johnson

Developing a Sense of Scale for the Universe

The first time I saw the video The Powers of Ten it blew my mind. It was one of those moments where, for the duration of the video, the entire Universe seemed to make sense. The video was an adaptation / read more…

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2.8.2013

by Dani Johnson

Demoting Pluto

Much of the public is still pretty upset that Pluto was demoted in 2006 from a small frigid planet to a puny little dwarf planet. I disagree with the general public’s idea that this re-classification must be a demotion. Astronomers / read more…

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2.1.2013

by Dani Johnson

The Moon Illusion

We have record of people noticing that the Moon looks larger at the horizon than directly overhead dating as far back as 4 BC, but I have a feeling that people have noticed it for as long as people have / read more…

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