Is it a Particle or a Wave? What is a Wave? Let's try to describe what a wave is. A wave is a moving disturbance in something. It has a pattern of crests and troughs. Think of these as water splashing in your backyard, where there are crests on top of the wave and t » Continue Reading
Happy Pi Day! On March 14 lies a savory pie that math enthusiasts and not only math enthusiasts celebrate Pi day 3/14. Whether it's apple pie, custard, or cream everyone around the world is welcome to celebrate. A physicist at San Francisco's Exploratorium named Larry Shaw marked how March 14 reflected the first three numbers of pi which is 3.14. And funny enough it is also Albert Einstein's birth... » Continue Reading
What would it be like to travel into another parallel universe like in Star Trek? Take shortcuts at ridiculous speeds? Or travel backwards against time? A wormhole would be theoretically the answer to that. » Continue Reading
Yesterday was I Heart Pluto day! On February 18 marks the 95th anniversary of Pluto’s discovery. Today we will be talking about facts about Pluto! Pluto history It all happened in 1930 a young man called Clyde Tombaugh fresh off his farm in Kansas discovered Pluto. He was » Continue Reading
The Sun is a star , a ball of very hot gas that gives off huge amounts of radiation! The radiation is produced in its core where baby hydrogen bombs explode . Many different stars exist from brown dwarfs to white supergiants. They differ in their temperature, » Continue Reading
The Galilean satellites, in other words, Jupiter's moons , 95 moons that have been official by IAU. They were the first moons discovered(excluding our moon) and named after an old Italian fellow Galileo Galilei (who had an unfortunate death). Today we will be speaking about the four largest m » Continue Reading
Electromagnetic radiation Atoms of each element emit or absorb radiation at different wavelengths. As you know, there is a spectrum called the electromagnetic spectrum. Electromagnetic radiation is energy that travels in waves. Everything emits radiation, such as light or X-rays! They all differ in wavelengths and how they interact with matter, because of this there is no one telescope that can de... » Continue Reading
Black holes are invisible infinitely small and dense , their gravity is so strong that no matter or even light can escape black holes! It happens because of the remains of supernovas(the biggest explosion we have ever seen), when a star loses all its fuel in its core it will collapse to form a black hole the process of this is a supernova. Black holes distort spacetime into an infinitely deep wel... » Continue Reading