Fact 1: You can’t directly see a black hole. Black holes are black, but not in that they are coloured black, but because no light can escape from them. This means that it is impossible to use any kind of equipment to detect the black hole itself. Instead scientists must observe the effects of the […]
Continue reading →With no sea ice to lie on, Walruses gather on a beach in Alaska The change from the 20s to now is very noticeable on the Pedersen Glacier. The worsening of forest fires is due to the increase of droughts. The West of the USA is suffering particularly badly with this. This mineral line on […]
Continue reading →The Idea for a Space Telescope is much older than you wold think. Dating all the way back to just after World War Two in fact, when astronomer Lyman Spitzer (1914-97) suggested the advantages that would be had from having a space-based observatory, rather than exclusively terrestrial ones. The Hubble Space Telescope was originally designed […]
Continue reading →Rocket Racoon The wise cracking, gun toting, and hairiest member of the Guardians of the Galaxy. Rocket is racoon is genetically that has been genetically and cybernetically engineered. he makes up half of the bounty hunting duo that are sent to find Star-Lord, but rather than capture him, they join his side to sell a […]
Continue reading →For many years, as it seems to be the case with everything, women were deemed too sensitive and unstable for space. Not to mention – ‘but what about their *cough* monthlies *cough*?’ Yet women have over and over again beaten through male expectations and proved that women are just as good if not better than […]
Continue reading →Space is full of weird things, however, most of them can be explained by science. Yet there are some that stump even the most accomplished astronomers. 1. Black Holes The study of black holes has come on in leaps and bound within the last few years, and yet, to misquote Pocahontas, how can there be […]
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