The influence of the philosophers, Cicero, in De Natura Deorum ("Concerning the Nature of the Gods"), claims that he was the offspring of the ancient gods Aether and Hemera, Air and Day. According to the Orphic hymns, Uranus was the son of Nyx, the personification...
We live in a determinate expanding universe which has not existed forever, and that all the matter, energy and space in the universe was once squeezed into an infinitesimally small volume, which erupted in a cataclysmic “explosion” which has become known as the Big Bang...
On Wednesday morning, an exceptionally longwinded lunar occasion will assume control throughout the night sky: the “Super Blue Blood Moon.” Yes, truly. So, what does every one of those modifiers mean precisely? The short clarification is this is an obscuration of the full Moon that...
Carbon dioxide is in a gaseous state at normal temperatures and its chemical equation is stated as CO2. Many people associate this with the internal combustion engine which powers the modern automobile. In fact, the largest producer of carbon dioxide, in the United States, within...
Our Sun is one of the most amazing phenomena when we think about it. The light from the Sun basically travels millions of miles across space through our atmosphere and is providing us warmth, visual light and vital energy for the plants. Basically, our Earth...
Scientists believe the Universe began in a hot ‘big bang’ about 13,600 million years ago. The Universe continues to expand today. The evidence for the Big Bang theory includes the existence of a microwave background radiation, and red-shift. Stars do not remain the same, but...
The claim that our universe began, and did not always exist, brings enormous challenges to scientists who do not believe that the universe was created by God.Are scientists part of the Big Bang theory? Yes. In the late 1920s, astronomer Edwin Hubble saw through his...
Moon: A moon is a celestial body that has attained enough mass to create its own gravitational field, orbits around the Sun, but is not the dominant body in its area. Some moons are big enough that they can create an orbit around the Sun,...
Our Exoplanets is a site about the exoplanets that we think are very interesting, such as Kelt-9B, or GJ 1214B. These planets are very different from Earth and are extremely strange. Now we are only doing some of the exoplanets because there is way too...
Few years back, our solar system had nine planets-Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Pluto. But today it consists of only eight planets. These may be classified into two groups- the first four rocky inner planets and the next four gas giants, the...
Of the many planets in our solar system of the Milky Way, Neptune is not the most widely discussed. Neptune is the eighth and farthest planet from the Sun in our Solar System. Neptune, like Uranus, is an ice giant, a subclass of giant planet,...
The Sun and the Moon passed each other as they did every day when day turned to night. “Goodnight Sun.” the Moon would say as she rose above the earth. “Protect our people well, Moon.” the Sun would say as he left the sky to...
The Google Lunar XPRIZE (GLXP), also referred to as Moon 2.0, was an inducement prize space competition organized by the X Prize Foundation. The basic objective of launching this prize was to challenge and inspire engineers, entrepreneurs, and innovators from around the world to develop...
No matter how far along you are in your sophistication as an amateur astronomer, there is always one fundamental moment that we all go back to. That is that very first moment that we went out where you could really see the cosmos well and...
In the history of modern astronomy, there is probably no one greater leap forward than the building and launch of the space telescope known as the Hubble. While NASA has had many ups and downs, the launch and continued operation of the Hubble space telescope...
We have a special feeling toward the other planets that circle our sun. Maybe it’s all the science fiction stories about visiting the moon, Mars and other planets. But we love to think about those planets that make up what we call “the solar system.”...
One of the earliest activities we engaged in when we first got into astronomy is the same one we like to show our children just as soon as their excitement about the night sky begins to surface. That is the fun of finding constellations. But...
For most of us, the idea of astronomy is something we directly connect to “stargazing”, telescopes and seeing magnificent displays in the heavens. And to be sure, that is the exciting area of astronomy that accounts for it’s huge popularity. So to the uninitiated, the...
If you are a serious astronomy fanatic like a lot of us are, you can probably remember that one event in childhood that started you along this exciting hobby. It might have been that first time you looked through a telescope. But for many of...