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Saturn’s Description: Saturn is known as the “Jewel of our solar system.” It is the second largest planet! (After Jupiter.) Saturn is 75 times larger than Earth, and more than 800 Earths could fit inside of it. Even though Saturn looks solid, Saturn is made of gas, and is known as a “gas giant.” The gas is mostly hydrogen and helium. Saturn is like a ghost. If you landed a rocket on Saturn, it would sink through 60,000 miles of swirling gasses, and you would eventually reach Saturn’s…

In the first few days of my theology class, my fellow students, Brother Theodore, and I, discussed the existence of God. We talked and philosophized on this topic for a few days and during this time we read, and researched, two philosophers, Alasdair MacIntyre and Thomas Aquinas. MacIntyre and Aquinas both talked about God’s existence and nonexistence, or theists and atheists. Neither of them, however considered the possibility that an advanced extraterrestrial species may have intervened. What…

Planets have gone through chemical transformations, but comets have remained almost unchanged bringing with them different elements that more than likely played an large role in the formation of oceans and atmospheres.One thing people might not know about…

Milky Way galaxy and recently we learned that planets are much more common than we thought. Those are the planets which are situated within the goldilocks zone of its home star, where the temperature is just right for water to remain in liquid state and perfect for life to flourish. Our current observational statistics has shown that a fifth of every sun-like star has an earth sized planet in its habitable zone. Even if only 0.1 percent of those planets contain life, there should still be few…

once on Mars billions of years ago. Hydrogen is lighter then its isotope deuterium so it escapes the atmosphere faster leaving behind large amounts of deuterium which seems to indicate that there was at one time a large amount of liquid water on the planet.…

too much. Even though paying to save lives is basically the point and that it’s not all the money in the world, just think of it like this. To get every human on the planet to a different planet would cost probably millions; or even billions of dollars. Plus, where’s the money even going? If we are paying to go to a different planet, what would the money be used for? To create all the spaceships, gear, and space suits is just way too much money, and using money from taxes doesn’t make the…

Henrietta Swan Leavitt was a female astronomer who lead the way for the ability to measure the distance between two planets, along with many other. Leavitt was born to a minister in Lancaster, Massachusetts in 1868. She attended a a higher education at Society for the Collegiate Instruction for Women, now named Radcliffe College. She graduated the college with a Bachelor's degree, but it was not in astronomy, which she would later dedicate her life to. She did take an astronomy class in her…

There has been much controversy over the possibility of the existence of alien life. Many people believe the consideration of alien life is just ridiculous, but over the year it has become a much less taboo way of thinking. The new argument would be whether alien life forms have been in contact with humans or not. Many people believe they have, while the majority of the world think that it is completely ludicrous. I fall in the minority who believes there has been contact and there are great…

Space is extraordinary! It is full of planets, stars, and many other things. There are several different hypotheses that were proposed on how the solar system was created. One of these hypotheses is the Nebular that was formulated by Pierre-Simon de Laplace in 1796. Many years later, in the 1900s, the Protoplanet hypothesis was proposed by Carl von Weizsäcker and Gerard Kuiper. Forest Moulton and Thomas Chamberlin proposed the Planetesimal hypothesis in 1905. The Nebular hypothesis starts…

like our sun had developed more than 4.5 billion years ago. It was a target even before Galileo had launched. Four spacecrafts had reached Jupiter before Galileo did; Voyager 1 and 2 as well as Pioneer 10 and 11 were those four spacecrafts but were unable to stay and it limited the information that the scientists had needed. It was from those spacecrafts that NASA decided to construct Galileo to discover more information on Jupiter and its moons. The journey to Jupiter itself was a hard one,…