A "Big Bang" of cosmic proportions?
The "Big Bang Theory" hypnotizes the universe emerged approximately 15 billion year ago from the expansion of a tremendously dense and hot form of mass and energy. It also postulates that the galaxies stars and planets were formed by the condensation of this primordial mass and energy due to the […]
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A Stellar Stable
I bet most of you did not know that the universe has a stable of its own. It is located in the winter constellation Orion and is the home Barnard 33 or the Horse Head Nebula.
However if you what to visit you’d better bring along some snacks because it is rather a long […]
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Rivers in the Night
Most of us who have spent time gazing at the night sky have seen the flowing rivers of lights called the Northern Lights or Aurora Borealis or the Southern Lights or Aurora Australis.
These rivers of red, blue and green received their name from Roman and Greek mythology.
Aurora is the Roman personification of […]
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The Expanding night.
Is the night expanding? According to most astronomers it is based on what is called a cosmological redshift.
That is the term astronomers have given to the shifting of spectral lines in light towards red end of the spectrum. They have assumed that this shifting is cause by the movement of stars away from […]
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The History of the Night
Constellations are names we have given to patterns of stars. The classical "ancient" constellations that populate our night sky began in the lands of the Middle East thousands of years ago, their origins largely lost to time. Their names were handed down to the Greeks, who overlaid them with their legends […]
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The North Star / Polaris
The North Star, also called the Pole Star or Polaris, is the star that the earth’s axis points toward in the Northern sky. For many years, people have been fascinated with this star and the fact that it doesn’t seem to move in the sky. Some have created legends explaining why […]
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Perseus
This week lets take a journey to the constellation Perseus which is located in the northern hemisphere. The mythology of Perseus is a wonderful tell, Perseus was the son of the Greek god Zeus and the mortal princess Danae. Perseus’ grandfather, Acrisius, the king of Argos, was warned by an oracle that he would be […]
Continue Reading Add comment September 24th, 2006 at 09:48pm Scientific Frontline®
M-31
This evening you are going to travel millions of mile out into the depths of space. Our stop? The great Andromeda Galaxy, . This is clearly one of the most glorious and resplendent of all deep-sky objects. At 2 million light years distant its regarded as the furthest thing visible to the unaided eye and […]
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What Are Cosmic Rays
Galactic cosmic rays (GCRs) are the high-energy particles that flow into our solar system from far away in the Galaxy. GCRs are mostly pieces of atoms: protons, electrons, and atomic nuclei which have had all of the surrounding electrons stripped during their high-speed (almost the speed of light) passage through the Galaxy. […]
Continue Reading Add comment September 5th, 2006 at 10:18am Scientific Frontline®
Arcturus, The Bear Watcher
Is the brightest star in the constellation Bootes “The Herdsman” or sometimes referred as the “Bear Driver”. According to Ovid’s (Publius Ovidius Naso; 43 BC to 17 AC) Metamorphoses, is Callisto’s son Arcas the Bear Driver. Callisto has been changed to a bear. To prevent Arcas from killing his mother (which he […]
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