Andromeda Galaxy

Frank Donald Drake, born May 28, 1930 in Chicago, Illinois, was unlike most children. Drake and his friends would often find themselves experimenting with motors, radios and chemistry sets for multiple hours at a time. As Frank’s understanding of the universe grew, so did his curiosity of extra-terrestrial beings. After his graduation from Cornell University, Frank spent the next three years in the United States Navy, as the electronics officer so he could repay his scholarship.…

star. Such black holes are thought to lie at the center of pretty much every galaxy, including the Milky Way. Black holes formed by the collapse of individual stars are relatively small, but incredibly dense. Such an object packs three times or more the mass of the sun into a city-size range. This leads to a crazy amount of gravitational force pulling on objects around it. Black holes consume the dust and gas from the galaxy around them. Scientists aren't certain how such large black hole's…

Francois Arago’s “Report to the Chamber of Deputies” is a report presented about a proposed bill, granting M. Daguerre and to the son of M. Niepce life pension granting them a national reward due to their invention, which could not be protected by ordinary patent laws. He discusses the invention by the two men: the Daguerreotype. It is a machine that reproduces images received in the camera obscura onto copper plates. He noted that Daguerre should be well credited for the effort, time and money…

A long time ago (3.9 billion years to be exact) in a galaxy far, far away, a deadly black hole ripped a star to pieces. In 2011, evidence of this was finally detected by NASA's Swift satellite. Within days, scientists around the world were able to identify the cause of the outburst. While their description has more to do with tidal disruption, one never knows when evil aliens could be to blame. NASA HOPES TO UNDERSTAND VIOLENT BLACK HOLE NASA doesn't quite understand what caused the X-ray…

SUPERGIANT STAR Supergiants are among the most luminous and massive stars, ranging between 7-10 solar masses and can range in brightness from thirty thousand to hundreds of thousands the output of our sun. They reside in the top region of the Hertzsprung-Russel diagram; having temperatures from 3,500k to over 20,000k and having bolometric absolute magnitudes between -5 and-12. Supergiants are massive enough to begin burning helium gently in their core before it becomes degenerate, and without…

Our universe is fading according to a recent study done by GAMA (Galaxy and mass assembly). After surveying light from as far back as two billion years the survey found that the light in our universe is fading and will have gone black in 100 billion years. This is due to two main factors. Fewer stars (the universe's light bulbs) are being made and our universe is expanding. “More stars are dying then being born” we know this because after looking 2 billion years into the past we have seen a…

The Nebular Hypothesis is a theory about how our Solar System was formed. It is the theory that our Solar System was formed from massive clouds of gas and dust. Then, for some reason over the span of billions of years, the cloud collapsed in on itself. The denser areas of the cloud started to pull in more matter and started to rotate. The pressure caused it to get hotter and hotter until it created the Sun. The material that was left over turned into a protoplanetary disc. The idea that the…

The influence high mass stars have on our Universe is that they create and affect many other bodies in space. For example, when they explode, they create supernovas and eventually those supernovas create black holes. They also are very beautiful and powerful. A high mass star starts out in a nebula and is created by the matter that lies in the nebula. When the hydrogen gas is forced together due to gravity, the star begins to spin and reach extreme temperatures. It gets so hot that it begins…

Before the dawn of time, before the creation of the universe, there was one being, known as God. Once, and once only, he took upon a physical form we call Arceus. He appeared before two beings, Dark and Light, or Yin and Yang. He bestowed upon them their own physical forms. Yang’s physical form was a dragon with white fur, mostly on it’s head, which had beautiful, light-blue eyes, and huge wings with three claws on each, and a large cylinder tail with two rings. We call Yang’s physical form…

Dark Matter and Dark Energy Casson VanDervoort Northview High School  Dark energy and dark matter are commonly found to disprove common knowledge in the world of science but still, these two forces are unknown and untapped. Both dark energy and dark matter are commonly referred to as one another but, in fact they’re different. The two are mostly found together but, dark matter may have been found to be linked to primordial black holes. One may ask, “What is dark matter and energy and…