I understand that you said that Jupiter is about 4 AU(I’m rounding these numbers) from us, but that cannot be counted as an out. Neptune was discovered mathematically, not visually because we noticed an irregular tug on Uranus’ orbit. That’s a distance of roughly 11...
What makes the discovery of Neptune so wonderful was the manner in which it was discovered. What Newton had done was uncover a deeper language of the cosmos, in which the universe was able to reveal more to us. And this is exactly what happened when we applied this language to the orbit...
That’s where I rediscovered theNeptune Memorial Reefoff the coast of Florida. What an amazing place that is. Of everything on my list, that’s the cemetery I’d most like to see. I wanted to be as comprehensive as possible within the number of cemeteries I was limited to, so I aske...
Better math Credit: CC0 Public Domain Think of all the false rumors that went viral about COVID-19—it got so bad, the World Health Organization called it an "infodemic." Whether it is in hoaxes or a viral conspiracy theory, information travels fast these days. Just how fast and far in...
Hubble parameter (H0), a value that relates the apparent recession speed of distant objects to their redshift. It was first calculated in 1929, when Edwin Hubble discovered that faraway galaxies appeared to be moving away from us at a rate that was proportional to the redshift of their ...