Radio telescope

Because a lot of stars cannot be seen by the naked eye, a radio telescope is used that detects the radiation. Electromagnetic energy describes the different kinds of energies released into space by stars such as the Sun. They include: Radio waves, TV waves, Radar waves, Infrared radiation (heat), Light, Ultraviolet light, X-rays, Short waves, Microwaves, Gamma rays. However, all kinds of electromagnetic…

Astronomy and Astrology: A Battle of Two Ancestral Brothers Astronomy, being an actual natural science, and not just predictions and magic, is a much more useful practice than its ancestral brother, astrology. Though, long ago, astronomy and astrology were once thought to be the one and the same, in the modern era, these two "sciences" are different in both the way they are practiced, and the tools with which you practice them. Astronomy, considered to be the more "real", respected science out…

Exploring the Moon’s Extreme Environment The Moon is our closest cosmic neighbour, and humans have been exploring it’s surface since we first developed telescopes. Though it can be fun to explore, it is far away, very expensive to go there and it is a very hard place to survive at. Different countries have sent probes that intend to crash to the moon’s surface but capture some photos of the surface before the impact. This was the first way to get scientific information about the moon,…

Galileo Galilei Have you ever wondered what Galileo Galilei did in his life?. Galileo Galilei made astonishing and world changing inventions and improvements to other inventions. His inventions and improvements to other inventions were made in the topics of math, astronomy, and cosmology. Galileo Galilei made significant change in the history of science. Galileo Galilei was born on February 15, 1564, in Pisa, Italy. After he was born he moved and lived in a town close to Florence, Italy.…

and in water. The probe separated from the orbiter on December 25, 2004 and landed on Titan on January 14, 2005. Up until this point, the probe remained essentially dormant besides semiannual system checks that were pre-programmed. The probe’s radio link was activated early on its 2.5 hour descent sending outgoing messages back to the orbiter that were also detected from Earth. Using Doppler data,…

George Lemaitre was a Belgian cosmologist and a Catholic priest that was born in the 1800's he studied both science and theology then ended up becoming the "Father Of The Big Bang." By writing a paper in 1931 he came up with the theory to the Big Bang that eventually expanded out to further research. (Soter and Tyson, 2000) Lemaitre served as an artillery officer in his younger ages during World War I which put a halt onto his studies but soon picked back up on after the war. He chose learn…

When the first one falls, I am going to wish for a life of adventure! I can’t wait! [2 hours later] Alright! Telescope is fully set up and the meteor shower should begin any minute now! Ooooh! I see it, I see it! Awesome! They have entered the atmosphere and are burning up! ...So cool! Wait...what is this?! They are not burning up at all, what the heck? They…

The universe we know Alien life has been a ringing topic in our world ever since the early ages of life. Many studies,from all over the world,have continued the study and the hard work to into finding any life. Although there is no conclusive evidence that their is life,we still believe and have hope that their is somewhere out here in our universe. Is it possible that there is life outside of earth? If so,how will try to get in contact with the extra terrestrial life ? Most important,will it…

Including a lot of increase in technology. A lot of modern inventions were made such as hair dryers, hearing aids, radio telescope, photocopying. As well as many scientific inventions like nuclear reactors, jet engine and liquid fuel rockets. People also had some great achievements for example the first person on the moon, first person to climb Mount Everest, the first African…

The Fermi paradox is frequently misrepresented, even in name alone. Using Fermi’s name falsifies Enrico Fermi’s own opinions on the subject. Fermi was skeptical about the possibility of interstellar travel, but not necessarily the possibility of intelligent life. The paradox however is frequently interpreted to mean that the absence of contact or artifact is evidence that extraterrestrial intelligence does not exist. The “they are not here; therefore they do not exist” argument was not…