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Kepler is a spacecraft telescope observatory launched by NASA on March 7th, 2009 with the primary purpose of discovering Earth-like planets orbiting other stars. The observatory named after astronomer Johannes Kepler, is designed to survey our section of the Milky Way in order to discover hundreds of Earth-sized extrasolar planets with livable conditions, to estimate how many stars are found within our galaxy, and create a better understanding of how planetary system’s light years away compare…

The sky tingled with the scent of the glorious Capitoline, and light shone through the colored windows of the building. While Rome lay beautiful with its gardens and blossoming architecture; the gods met to decide all that lay beneath the mortals. All of time had Jupiter awaited the birth of his younger brother, Pluto, but then a startling prophecy shook the walls of his palace. Pluto was a scripture interlaced with the somberness of the forgotten; he had been born crying in the womb of Gaea. He…

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…