Today was an eventful day! You may have heard that NASA launched a projectile into the moon, in an attempt to locate large deposits of water. Here are the facts: our national space agency sent a 2.2-ton empty rocket stage crashing into the south pole of the moon at twice the speed of a bullet, [...]
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When Astronauts are working on the International space station, they are allowed to bring up ‘crew preference’ items. NASA Astronaut Don Pettit used his available space to bring up supplies for cool microgravity science experiments! And - lucky for us – he filmed them all! Below is one of his vidoes that was recently featured on [...]
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So I hear a lot about the ‘higher dimensions’ – especially in regards to string theory and/or why Gravity is so weak (10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 times weaker than the Weak nuclear force). I have a handle on the first three (l*w*h) as well as the fourth (time). The fifth is pretty clear, as it involves splits off the normal [...]
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It was just about a year ago that the International Astronomical Union demoted Pluto from planet to dwarf planet. At the same time, two other solar system objects -Eris and Ceres- were upgraded from lower categories. Ceres, discovered in 1801, is the largest asteroid belt object, and is composed of a rocky mantle and icy crust. [...]
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