Hot Jupiter! Are there other civilizations out there on other planets wondering if there are other civilizations on other planets?
Image via Wikipedia (Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– The discovery of nine new planets challenges the reigning theory of the formation of planets, according to new observations by astronomers. Two of the astronomers involved in the discoveries are based at the UC Santa Barbara-affiliated Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network (LCOGT), based in Goleta, Calif., near [...]
Why Wasn’t The Earth A Ball Of Ice For Billions Of Years?
Image via Wikipedia Carl Sagan said that the weak rays of our Sun during Earth’s early years should have created a planet ensconced in ice. Yet somehow Earth’s temperature’s been mostly constant, and above freezing. Now two Danish scientists think they know why. Carl Sagan and George Mullen put together the ‘faint young sun‘ paradox [...]
Syzygy
Syzygy is the longest word in the English language the letters of which, used in any combination, do not form a single other word. {Via} 1. Astronomy a. Either of two points in the orbit of a celestial body where the body is in opposition to or in conjunction with the sun. b. Either of [...]