Extrasolar planet

By Vaughn Heppner The name of my book is Invaders which is a science fiction story written by Vaughn Heppner. The main character in this story is Logan who is ex military and he wants to protect the earth and the human race from being destroyed. The only thing standing in his way is aliens. Logan was in the Nevada desert when he was kidnapped by the aliens. He was able to escape his captives and he ended up in Greenland. In Greenland he discovers an extraterrestrial ship and he decides to…

Science is a field that prides itself on being open-minded. As a science, the field of space science additionally endeavors to achieve this objective. Pretty much as teenagers pursue crazes today, be it design or the most recent heart-throb, space science too has tirelessly taken after patterns that were coherently imperfect. Much like today's prevailing fashions, these thoughts appear to be senseless in knowledge of the past. However, notwithstanding realizing that such prevailing fashions…

The Moon mass is 1/81 of the Earth's mass and the Earth's gravity is 1/6 of gravity on the Earth's surface, meaning that if you weigh 60 kg on Earth, your weight on the Moon will be 10 kg. If you can easily carry a 30-kilogram bag on the ground, you can easily carry a 180-kilogram bag on the moon. If you can easily jump on the surface of the earth to a height of half a meter, you can climb as high as 3 meters. Also, if you have a pendulum clock that vibrates on the ground 60 times a minute, it…

September Science Article In the article “What Is a Solar Eclipse?” on Live Science it states that solar eclipses are “some of nature’s most dramatic celestial performances”. A solar eclipses occurrence is very seldom and can only be seen when the sun, moon, and Earth are aligned and the moon passes between the sun and the Earth. A total Eclipse occurs about every 18 months on Earth. There are two types of shadows. The umbra, and the penumbra. While a total solar eclipse is going on, the moon…

Hey journal, its day 60 and I’m still stuck on this black water dirt planet called earth. Hhhhhhhhhh, I miss Nevermond, I miss laying down and tacking a nice bath and most of all I miss Grim my pet robot. I’m almost finished repairing my ship, all I need is a hyper drive, a clocking device and laser blaster to defend myself off from the asteroids that crashed me here in the first place. Now where will an alien like me Clank get those types of instruments and how will I get it without getting…

We Have a Photo of It! In a solar system far away, there is a planet which is quite similar to Jupiter and some believe that they are something like siblings. Scientists have taken a photograph of a big planet which is supposed to reveal clues about Jupiter-y planets and their creation and planetary siblings. At a distance of 96 light years from Earth, the planet which is known as 51 Eribani b, was photographed by the Gemini Planet Imager, which, according to the Wikipedia, is a high contrast…

have asked similar questions: are there any planets we can live other than earth? For decades, scientists and astronomers are devoted to these fascinating questions and have done lots of researches. Since the shining stars we can see with our naked eyes on earth are almost fixed stars like our sun, it’s absolutely impossible for life to exist there. Thus in order to search for second earth, the first thing to do is detecting Earth-sized and smaller planets in the habitable zone of stars. NASA’s…

There has recently been a NASA spacecraft, called New Horizons, that flew to Pluto to do some studying. The spacecraft took off 9 ½ years ago from Cape Canaveral, Florida and its flight has spanned 3 billion miles. The spacecraft is operated from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland. New Horizons has taken pictures of Pluto and has revealed a variety of landscapes. From soaring mountains to dunes to frozen ice. “Pluto is showing us a diversity of…

I wanted to explore the skies, land on the moon and unravel the mysteries of the universe. Astronomy was a common obsession among my friends as well. I still remember showing my friends my new astronomy books at lunch breaks. I loved to look at planets, stars and galaxies—they were so beautifully illustrated in the books. One day, I convinced my dad to take me and my friends to a science camp, so we can see everything with our own eyes. After looking at the sun, the moon and the stars through…

Jupiter is the fifth planet out from the sun, and is the largest planet in our solar system. In addition, the planet is primarily made of gases, therefore it considered a “gas giant”. The 142,984 km planet’s atmosphere is made mostly of hydrogen and helium gas. Therefore, there is no solid ground on Jupiter, so the surface is considered the point where the atmospheric pressure is equal to that of Earth. The effective temperature, or “the temperature of an object calculated from the radiation it…