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available data gathered by NASA's Kepler Telescope to search for other planets like Earth. They soon discovered a bizarre planet that had an unusual flickering pattern, meaning something is happening to it that makes it dim then brighten. The abnormal star was said to be located between the constellations, Cygnus and Lyra and was above the Milky Way. In addition, it was named, “KIC 8462852” soon after. Many astronomers believe that this could result in extraterrestrial activity and could be a…

"There's no such thing as stars, Lea." My older sister and I sit on the shaggy carpet in my room. “Yes, there are. I saw a picture once.” I insist. “They’re beautiful.” “Okay, two things.” My sister Sara says. “One, they’re not real. That photograph was obviously forged. Two, even if they did exist, they are not beautiful. My ancient mythology teacher said that people believe they were giant balls of fire in the sky that would burn things down on Earth.” “They were what gave it light!” I say…

Expect to see celestial fireworks with this year’s Orionid Meteor Shower. Every year as the Earth cruises past an expanse of space littered with the remains of Halley’s Comet, the skies are lit with fast moving beams of light. NASA announced that the shower will begin on Wednesday and continue on till Thursday at dawn. The Time Earth is Closest to Halley’s Comet Debris Stream The best time for viewing will be on Thursday just before dawn, when the shower will reach its peak and it’ll be…

The Sun is far from fully understood and today the two biggest questions related to the Sun is the reason for the high temperature in the corona and how to explain the sunspot cycle \cite{PB}. The Sun is far from fully understood and today the two biggest questions related to the Sun is the reason for the high temperature in the corona and how to explain the sunspot cycle \cite{PB}. The Sun is far from fully understood and today the two biggest questions related to the Sun is the reason for the…

Stars that are formed with different masses are thought to have different properties, such as low mass stars are more likely to turn into dwarf planets and high mass stars are more likely to turn into supernovas. Average stars like the sun usually become white dwarfs and the process of emitting its outer layers carry on until the stellar core is revealed which is known as a white dwarf. White dwarfs have the mass of a star but are the size of our planet which arose various questions along the…

interferometers. Discuss major discoveries that were possible after detection of radio waves from space and how they changed our understanding of Universe. Astronomy is all about increasing our understandings about our Universe through observing objects like stars, galaxies and other bodies which exist outside Earth’s atmosphere. Astronomers make observations of these celestial phenomena by collecting electromagnetic radiation. Optical telescopes e.g. the Hubble Space Telescope collect light…

Is it possible for a star to burn cold? The answer is not as simple as you may think; while all sars burn hot, there are some cold enough to touch (if you survive the vacuum of space). In 2011, NASA’s satellite WISE discovered six Y-Dwarf stars burning as cold as ice, not even forty light years away from our own sun. This type of star is often referred to as a Brown Dwarf, or a failed star. There are three types of Brown Dwarfs; L-Dwarf, T-Dwarf, and Y-Dwarf, the Y-Dwarf being the coldest.…

in Greek mythology. Orion is made up of seven main stars that make something of an 'hourglass' shape, with four stars making a rectangle-like shape; Betelgeuse and Bellatrix making up his 'shoulders', and Saiph and Rigel making up his 'feet'. This rectangle is then tethered in at the middle by three stars to finish off the hourglass shape and act as Orion's 'belt'; these stars are named Mintaka, Alnilam and Alnitak. There are of course other stars that make up other aspects such as a sword, a…

Everything, Features, Intelligence By Jeff Sorensen You may have heard in the past few days that the NASA’s Kepler space telescope found that KIC 8462852 (an F-type main-sequence star located in the constellation Cygnus approximately 454 parsecs (1,480 ly) from Earth) noticed that lighting events observed at the star seemed very odd over the past few years. The dimming events happened so much so that scientists figured that it was too much to be caused by a planet. How scientists generally…

On the photosphere of the Sun it can be observed groups of dark spots. These dark spots are called sunspots and are temporarily, during from a few days to a few months. Sunspots are observed as dark compared to the surrounding areas because of the low temperature compared to the rest of the photosphere. The reduced temperature at the sunspots is due to high magnetic fields that counteract the convection preventing hotter material to reach the surface.\par The sunspots can be seen with the naked…