Tweet Solar flares are beautiful, dangerous, powerful, and potentially a massive source of energy that is yet to be harnessed. Solar flares give off enormous amounts of radiation. So much, in fact, that is the star nearest to us (not our Sun) were to have a massive solar flare in our solar system’s direction, our Earth could [...]
Tweet Moon is the only satellite of the earth. The moon evolves around the earth in 27.3 days. The atmosphere of the moon can be considered space. The Russain’s spacecraft Lunik was the first to reach the moon in the year 1959. While the Apollo 8 was the first manned spacecraft send to the moon, in [...]
Tweet The planets can be classified to two parts the first is the 4 inner planets that are composed from rocks and metals and they are Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars. The other part is the 4 outer planets which are different in the composition, where Jupiter and Saturn consist of hydrogen and helium, while [...]
Tweet In the year 1839, Friedrich Schönbein (1799-1868) the German-Swiss chemist reached for the discovery of Ozone O3. The Ozone layer is one of the earth atmosphere layers. The earth atmosphere consist of many layers, starting with Troposphere layer, next there is Stratosphere layer, followed by Mesosphere layer, then Thermosphere layer, till we reach Exosphere [...]
Tweet A new discovery that NASA has announced about. NASA has called the new planet Kepler-22b, it took the name out of the spacecraft Kepler which discovered the planet among more than 1000 other planets. The new planet exist out of our solar system, it is more similar to earth than any other discovered planet. [...]
Tweet If the Earth had stayed as it was after formation, we humans would not be here. The beautiful thing about Earth compared to all the other planets is the most simplest of things: water. Our two closest neighbors, Mars and Venus, are both in what is called the “habitual zone” for life but neither [...]
Tweet The speed of light is the absolute fastest speed anything in the universe is capable of traveling at. Energy (including light), information, and matter can only travel at or below this speed, which is exactly 299,792,458 meters per second or 186,282 miles per second. Could you imagine a world where humans travel from place [...]
Tweet Certainly you’ve seen that movie, right? You know the one where an asteroid is hurling towards the Earth and threatening mankind and all other forms of life on the planet as we know it? Well certainly you have at least heard of such a story or dreamt of such a scenario. Did you know [...]
Tweet Have you ever seen those beautiful images of Saturn? The planet is one of the most unique planets in our solar system. Saturn’s rings have dazzled confused scientists for many years. Thankfully in the past ten years many things have been discovered – most importantly the reason behind the existence of these rings. Galileo [...]
Tweet John F. Kennedy very famously said in 1961: “First, I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the earth. No single space project in this period will be more impressive to mankind, or [...]