astronomy

I’m actually kinda surprised there isn’t a thread dedicated to the study of the world outside our world. I learned under a NASA astronomer when I was a kid so I always had the space geek bug in me. More importantly tho, space exploration helped to advance us very rapidly. If the military budget...

Latest Question Simple premise. Everyday I (and other people can do so) will post a single math or physics question from a wide range of various difficulties. The 'easy' questions will just be college-level stuff. Not braindead simple stuff that middle schoolers can do. (ex.: 1 + 1 = ?)...

Go outside and look up in the Eastern sky, about 45 degrees up from the horizon. You'll see it glowing a beautiful, brilliant orange. It looks wonderful. Go check it out. Love y'all...

Y'all ever been curious on what Space sounds like with...well...sound? Turns out Space actually does in fact have sound, it’s just travels in the form of electromagnetic vibrations that pulsate in similar wavelengths. What NASA did was design special instruments on their spacecraft that could...

Artwork: The Kepler telescope was launched to detect new worlds using the "transit method" It's the largest number of worlds ever discovered in a planetary system outside our own. The star known as Kepler-90, is just a bit hotter and larger than the Sun; astronomers already knew of seven...