It’s a small world after all; at least that’s the way it looks from space. Seeing pictures or video footage of the earth, surrounding planets, stars, or other space matter from outer space really puts things in perspective. So far, scientifically we may be the only humans identified in...
Liu's job is looking at the planets(6) with a telescope (望远镜).She can learn a lot about space.She is busy all day. (7) After work,the astronauts exercise to relax.Then they have dinner(8) anddo some reading.Finally they go to bed.They sleep in sleeping bags...
Webb Telescope Prompts Rethink of How Galaxies FormAugust 07, 2023 Katherine Whitaker was on a video call with colleagues last summer when NASA released the first pictures from the ultra-powerful James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Among the many awe-inspiring images was one of a sliver of sky...
Image from the Hubble Space Telescope of the giant galaxy UGC 2885. (Image credit: NASA/ESAB. Holwerda (University of Louisville)) Isaac Newton assumed that there is an absolute rest frame, or an external perfect frame of reference that we could compare all other frames of reference against....
However, Hadamard did not originate the quote, as shown by his own introductory phrase of, “It has been written that the shortest and best way between two truths of the real domain often passes through the imaginary one,” in An Essay on the Psychology of Invention in the Mathematical ...
I haven’t seen it yet, because I don’t have a clear view of the eastern horizon before dawn. I’ve read that you can see it without a telescope, provided there isn’t much light pollution where you live. On Monday and Tuesday, it will be near the conjunction of Mercury and ...
The first photo is just a small preview of the groundbreaking discoveries the Webb telescope will help scientists make in the coming decades. For example, during the reveal of the first photo, Nelson pointed out that the telescope will allow them to determine if other planets are habitable. The...
(meet)with more than 300,000 children.Kids can't resist the attraction of the telescope and theopportunity it offers to see the moon up close,as well (8) as stars and planets,says Murabana. In January 2021,pop royalty Madonna visited Kenya and booked a private tele...
UFO hunters have sometimes looked at photos taken by these rovers and pointed out what appears to be remnants of alien life. In those cases, it is generally assumed by scientists that those are pictures of geographical features on the planet, which due to a combination of light and shadow, ...
Continue Reading → April 4, 2013 Champagne Supernovas and the Birth of the Universe There are some great telescope pictures of the universe on the Guardian Science Gallery this month. This picture shows the distorted remnants of a supernova explosion - where stars are destroyed. This particular...