Milky Way

this is false, but people can never be too careful. Many individuals claim the radio signals scientists have been monitoring from 3 billion light-years away are proof. Some claim the probability of aliens not existing is far too low, and there is no way Earth hosts the only intelligent life forms out there. Others claim the government is hiding the proof from the public, with the evidence kept in secret underground bunkers. Whether aliens are peaceful creatures, just studying the universe around…

years old; the age of our galaxy, the Milky Way, is 13.2 billion years old, with approximately…

basic human want to know if we really are the only form of life in the universe and if there are any other planets out there with the same conditions needed for life as on Earth. Kepler has been “specifically designed to survey our region of the Milky Way galaxy to discover hundreds of Earth-size and smaller planets in or near the habitable zone and determine the fraction of the hundreds of billions of stars in our galaxy that might have such planets.”(“Mission Overview | NASA”) Kepler is able…

Mass Effect: Andromeda is a pretty awesome space exploration game where you play as John Smith from Pocahontas. Today, Bioware released a video showing off different components of the game such as weapons and different skills the player can equip. The video starts off by showing off a more fluid movement in the moment to moment gameplay. We see Ryder swiftly dart into battle using a jetpack, and using the same jetpack to distance herself from enemies. Players can also take the high ground and…

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within two dozen years.” – Dr. Seth Shostak, Director of Communications for SETI Look up into a clear night sky in a city, and you might see a small handful of pinpricks of light dotting the sky. Move out to the suburbs, where there’s less in the way of light pollution, and you’ll see a few more. Keep traveling away from population and artificial light – down a deserted highway, or out into a dark forest – and the sky begins to explode with thousands of stars, each of which could have their…

Space. More than just stars and stuff. Space is awesome. Both in scale and my opinion. Humans have dreamed of space travel, used stars for navigation and just generally drooled over the sky for thousands of years. There is a void surrounding us that is so large we call it “space”. But it’s not an empty, cavernous expanse, it’s filled with a multitude of stuff: from stars to planets, comets to black holes, there’s even a Super Sized Space Puddle.[1] Yet, some people aren’t interested in what is…

is the Sun’s lost mass. The second way of Sun’s mass decreasing is due to the solar wind, which is constantly blowing protons and electrons into outer…

The universe is very big. It could be infinite, we aren't sure exactly how big it is because it is still growing. It is home to countless stars, planets, galaxies, and nebulae. Everything is so far apart. For instance, our moon is 238,900 miles away from the Earth. It is about twice as many miles that someone might walk in eighty years, assuming they walk about 7,500 steps every day. The closest galaxy to us is the Andromeda Galaxy, it is approximately 2.9 million light years away. As long as…

During my visit to the Memorial Art Gallery, they were and still are showing M. C. Escher: Reality and Illusion along with other exhibitions. Many of his artworks seemed to correspond to the topics discussed in class. There were several artworks that stopped my eyes. Out of those artworks, Stars created in 1948 is a wood engraving portraying two chameleons in a hollow octahedron 3-compound with other similar, smaller figures colored in yellow, blue, and pink in the solid black background. Escher…