Archive for the ‘Astronomy’ Category
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
I have seen differing numbers on this, but the two numbers that keep popping up are 260 days and 6 months. This is just for the one way trip at the time when Mars is closest to the Earth. Once you reach Mars, you need to wait another 1.6 years ...
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Thursday, June 26th, 2008
By biggest, I am referring to the aperture, or the light gathering capacity of the telescope in question.
The biggest telescope in the world is the Large Binocular Telescope located in southeastern Arizona. Like its name suggests, it uses two 8.4 meter mirrors mounted side by side to produce one image ...
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Thursday, June 26th, 2008
The biggest planet in our solar system is Jupiter. The diameter at the equator of Jupiter is 140,000 kilometers. All of the planets in our solar system could nicely fit inside Jupiter twice over!
Jupiter is classified as a Gas Giant planet, meaning that it is mainly composed of gases; hydrogen ...
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Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
The smallest planet in the solar system is Mercury, the closest planet to the sun. Up until now, there has been very little of footage taken of Mercury's surface. Two NASA orbiters have been sent to Mercury; Mariner 10 in 1974 and Messenger in 2008. Mariner 10 was able to ...
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Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
The smallest star in the universe is a Red Dwarf; the smallest star possible. As we have yet to catalogue every star in the entire universe, the classification of "smallest star" would be like classifying the smallest lake or the smallest river. That being said, one of the smallest stars ...
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