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How to read a Hertzsprung-Russell diagram
By using increasingly powerful telescopes, fitted with various instruments to analyse the quality of the light collected from objects such as stars and galaxies, and by making calculations based on their observations, astronomers down the centuries have been able to gather a considerable amount of information about a large number of stars and other objects.
By John Welford5 years ago in Futurism
The Moon
In cultures around the world, studying the moon and stars was a way to tell time. It was important to keep a planting schedule in agriculture, to foretell the coming of the seasons, and the phases of our Moon also helped as a way to keep track of time on a daily basis.
By Heather Falsetti5 years ago in Futurism
affreux Survivante
The below seems to be a stream of consciousness that was fired across the cosmos from a distant planet, that orbited a distant star, moments before that planet was partially destroyed. From what we are able to observe of that far off region of space, it seems a planet that was once capable of supporting life now exists as a cluster of rocks orbiting a star that once gave that planet warmth and light, gave it life. The below message was unusually transmitted as pure energy, that is to say it was attached to particles of light rather than a radio wave. Take this as an oversimplified explanation, imagine a small star or ball of light racing through the universe like an asteroid rather than a wave and you’ll have an idea how we first observed the travelling ball of energy. It was the unusual nature of that light travelling through the universe that drew our attention to it. It would take us many years to find the message attached to the photons and many more years to roughly translate it. The below is a loose translation, we do not know much about the world it originated from or what that world looked like. We do not know if the life on that planet was hominid-like, though the message seems to indicate that life on that planet evolved down a similar route as our own. We do not know what trees or guns would have looked like or if their version of a “farmhouse” is similar to our own, we have simply used our imagination to attach meanings and concepts as we understand them to a completely alien message. Specific names, such as the names of tribes or locations, of course cannot be translated. It also seems that the message was not sent through a deliberate process but was instead the anguished cry across the cosmos of a life form in pain, suffering and likely dying. How any of this is possible is beyond our current understanding of the laws of physics.
By Jamie Stirling5 years ago in Futurism
They detect a new super-Earth around a red dwarf star
A team of researchers led by Borja Toledo, Severo Ochoa-La Caixa doctoral student at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) , has discovered a super-earth around GJ 740, a cold dwarf star located about 36 light-years from Earth.
By Harsh Mehta5 years ago in Futurism
About the black hole
A black hole is a region in space which have high gravity and even it can absorb the rays of light. Blackhole is so far from the earth and far from our solar system. It is discovered by the British astronomers Louise Webster and Paul Murdin at the Royal Greenwich Observatory and Thomas Bolton, a student at the University of Toronto, independently announced the discovery of a massive but invisible object in orbit around a blue star over 6,000 light-years away. Later, it was named “Blackhole”.
By Willow Writer5 years ago in Futurism
The High Frontier: The Birth of Self-Sustaining Space Outposts
WHEN SOPHIA Casanova was 10, her parents bought her a telescope, and she fell head over heels for all things space. She’d spend lazy summers in her hometown of Sydney, Australia, in the late 1990s revelling in the stars and watching the haunting phases of the serene, implacable Moon.
By Wilson da Silva5 years ago in Futurism
Have We Given Up on Earth?
I don't know about you, but I get worried when I see articles about missions into space—particularly those involving civilians. I have visions to apocalyptic movies like 2012 where all the things that can go wrong do go wrong in a cataclysmic fashion, and the only thing left to do is to board our space shuttles as we flee from a dying earth.
By Jillian Spiridon5 years ago in Futurism
Chapter One: Red Velvet Lenny
"System engines have gone critical, sir." The feminine voice of the station's mainframe sounded above the groaning metal and flying sparks. Max Silver hissed in pain as he leaned on the guardrail of the catwalk, a wave of vertigo rushing over him when he looked down the endless shaft to the reactors. Red and gold emergency lights pulsed all around the metal chasm.
By Gordon Hawkins5 years ago in Futurism
Asteroid Strike
2056: The world has come together. United. For once. Russia, China and USA. Their space force side by side.There is an eerie silence across the globe. Every nation has a hotline with each other. Scopes facing space are tracking the moment of an impending asteroid strike.
By Xilla Club5 years ago in Futurism
