There’s some debate over which star is the smallest star (seen so far).OGLE-TR-122b,Gliese 623b, andAB Doradus Care among the top contenders (why iseveryother culture better at naming stars?), and all weigh in around 100 Jupiters. They are estimated to be no more...
stars and their properties stars are massive, glowing balls of hot gases, mostly hydrogen and helium. some stars are relatively close (the closest 30 stars are within 40 parsecs) and others are far, far away. astronomers can measure the distance by using a method called parallax , in which...
The major issue with today's space propulsion technology is that it scales far too poorly to achieve anything close to interstellar speeds. In space, fuel is used asreaction mass: in other words, the only way rockets and spacecraft can accelerate forward is by ejecting fuel backward as fast...
holes are less dangerous than small ones. For a supermassive black hole, you could fall through the event horizon past the point of no return without feeling even a twinge. In contrast, for a small black hole, you will be ripped apart long before you ever get close to the event horizon...
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"It doesn't matter how beautiful your idea is, it doesn't matter how smart or important you are. If the idea doesn't agree with reality, it's wrong", Richard Feynman (paraphrased)
golden worlds like almond cookies, outsized maroon crags, marbly surfaces, hyperclose suns, clouds obscuring unfamiliar continents. on august 24, astronomers got a new planet to make pictures of: one orbiting the nearest star to our solar system, proxima centauri. the planet, proxima b, orbits...
Rather than end with the bang of Avengers: Age of Ultron, Marvel decided to close out its Phase 2 with the small-scale fun of Ant-Man. And it's a great choice—the Ant-Man movies prove that the entire universe doesn't need to be at stake for a Marvel movie to be fun; these ar...
And that's still probably not even close. It's amazing." —winterwoods "Deep pressure and a pleasurable electrical jolt." "Deep pressure and a pleasurable electrical jolt. If the guy is long enough to hit deep anatomy there's also another sensation, like a sparkling glittering radiation ...