This classic Bristol Jupiter piston engine has nine cylinders arranged at the center of a hub, like the spokes in a bicycle wheel, all pushing into a central crank. Known as a radial design, this arrangement was popular in early plane engines. Here's a great little animation of how it ...
In my own case, my Saturn in Libra conjoined my late father's sun as it does my firstborn daughter's sun. This same child has her Mars in Leo near my own, along with that of her godmother. And all three of us struggled together in our earlier years on the island of Puerto Rico....
these robots report will help scientists study the deepest corners of the ocean. Orpheus could pave the way for exploring other planets and moons suspected to have water on them, including Saturn’s moon Titan and Jupiter’s moon Europa. Robots could very well discover alien life on these ...
In this illustration from "Metamorphoses" by Ovid, Zeus (Jupiter) turns Lycaon into a wolf. Los Angeles County Museum of Art/Wikipedia It's hard to pin down where the werewolf legend originated. One of the oldest known written works on the planet, "The Epic of Gilgamesh," is a likely...
And always, as with the latest 9/12 extravaganza headed by red-state fascists, the marchers assemble on the “National Mall,” the government grass that extends from Lincoln’s Roman temple — where he sits enthroned like Jupiter, fasces and all — to George Washington’s obelisk, an Eq...
In view of the discovery of hydrothermal vents, it may be possible that life exists on Europa, an icy moon of Jupiter, which scientists believe has a water ocean beneath its icy crust. Tubeworms around a hydrothermal vent Photo courtesy NOAA/U.S. Dept. of Commerce Life has been found...
Jupiter Mercury Uranus Not only is Jupiter the largest planet in our solar system, but it also spins at the fastest rate. Read More: Jupiter: Anatomy of a Gas Giant 4. True or false: Less than 3 percent of the world's population can speak four or more languages. True. Less than 3 ...
Those notions -- about how to get an object "to the top of the atmosphere and beyond" -- would have to wait untilIsaac Newton, who published his now-famous cannonball thought experiment in 1729. His thinking went like this: Imagine you place a cannon atop a mountain and fire it horizon...
Jupiter to see this impact. It was the first time we’d ever seen an impact in real time. And the Hubble Space Telescope was in orbit, and the Galileo Telescope was on its way to Jupiter. And from every point of view imaginable, we saw this comet slam into Jupiter. And t...
In this illustration from "Metamorphoses" by Ovid, Zeus (Jupiter) turns Lycaon into a wolf. Los Angeles County Museum of Art/Wikipedia It's hard to pin down where the werewolf legend originated. One of the oldest known written works on the planet, "The Epic of Gilgamesh," is a likely...