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NARRATOR: Listen to part of a lecture in an astronomy class. MALE PROFESSOR: Saturn's rings have always baffled astronomers.Until about 30 years ago, we thought the rings were composed of particles of ice and rock that were left over from Saturn's formation—extra material that never managed...
Narrator: Listen to part of a lecture in an astronomy class. Male professor: Saturn's rings have always baffled astronomers. Until about 30 years ago, we thought the rings were composed of particles of ice and rock that were left over from Saturn's formation-extra material that never managed...
It’s Pope Gregory and his advisers who came up with the really gnarly math on when there should or shouldn’t be a leap year. “If the solar year was a perfect 365.25 then we wouldn’t have to worry about the tricky math involved,” Eakes said. WHAT’S THE DEAL WITH LEAP Y...
"It's mostly that the Romans didn't really like February very much," Ben Gold, a professor of astronomy and physics at Hamline University in Saint Paul, toldCBS Minnesotatwo leap years ago, in 2016. At the time, in the 8th century BC, the calendar was just 10 months long, with the...
The Adam's apple: it's neither an apple nor is it possessed exclusively by people named Adam. We'll talk about why that is, plus another linguistic conundrum: how did 'physician' become a word for 'doctor' while 'physicist' stayed in the realm of matter
The process should begin about 3 billion years from now and finish in an additional 4 billion years from then. Obviously, it's not something any of us will live to see. But regardless, scientists have already come up with a name for this future elliptical galaxy: They call it "Milkomeda...
and I hate to break it to you, but Feynman is just not someone that I think any of us should aspire to be like in an across-the-board fashion. For starters, you can go back to his speech on cargo cult science and find that in the very next part of his speech — right after th...
“If we observe water vapor in a planet’s atmosphere, that’s a good indication that there are no clouds high enough to block its absorption. Conversely, if water vapor is not observed and only a flat spectrum is seen, despite knowing that the planet should have an extended atmospher...
"What surprised everyone — the astronomy community and SpaceX — was how bright their satellites are," Patrick Seitzer, an astronomy professor emeritus at the University of Michigan, said Wednesday (Jan. 8) during a special news conference atthe 235th meeting of the American Astronomical Society...