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A strong crowd! The greatest astronomical discoveries of all time
Nitrogen in the air, calcium in our bones, carbon in our flesh and blood... All this stuff, which we call matter, comes from inside the star. As the romantics so beautifully put it, stardust makes us who we are! Since the beginning of time, mankind has seen it as its mission to explore the universe. It is this exploration of the universe that makes us realize that the universe is bigger than we thought. With each revolutionary breakthrough, mankind becomes more determined and capable of exploring the universe. Now let's take a look at some of the major discoveries that have reinvented our understanding of the universe time and time again.
By Zhiwei Lu3 years ago in Earth
The top 10 astronomical events of 2021
What a year! The year has seen many exciting space events, such as tonight's Comet Leonard. We also witnessed the largest auroras on record during the 25th solar cycle rise, once again. It was also a year of great leaps in science. So, follow our lead now as we look back at the top 10 astronomical events that happened in 2021.
By Zhiwei Lu3 years ago in Earth
What is astronomy?
Astronomy is often regarded as the oldest science, born out of our curiosity about the sky. Digital images of the beige planet, surrounded by beige and black rings, set against a pitch-black background. The study of space above the Earth's atmosphere is called astronomy. Named after a Greek astronomer, it studies stars, planets, comets, galaxies, and larger objects in the universe.
By Zhiwei Lu3 years ago in Earth
Here are 50 astronomy tips!
1. If you dropped Saturn in water, it would float. 2. If you took a pin-sized portion of the sun and placed it on the earth, you would die within 145km (90 miles) of it.
By Zhiwei Lu3 years ago in Earth
mountain climbing
I woke up early in the morning and was freezing cold, so I shivered and covered the blanket tightly, then looked out the window. The autumn rain is still falling, hitting the security net on the clattering, and do not care to sleep, dressed, pulling up the sleeping mother, they drove to the foot of a mountain. As for what this mountain is called, I am not quite sure, I only know that my grandmother lives in this mountain.
By Deer Gaviria3 years ago in Earth
Lost
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. I could feel everything closing in around me as I struggled to breathe.
By Kristina Eileen3 years ago in Earth
High Technology left Behind by Prehistoric Man
2012 was the year the Mayan civilization had its highest presence, as everyone waited for their predicted catastrophe. From the stroke of midnight on December 21 to 23:59, humanity passed through the Mayan doomsday without much happening. The failure of the prophecy did not bring the Mayan civilization down from its pedestal, and people continued to yearn for it.
By Zhiwei Lu3 years ago in Earth
How did our universe come into being?
According to the existing observational data and theories, the observable universe appeared about 13.8 billion years ago, with an error margin of ±20 million years. There is no solution to the discussion of "whole universe" or "multiverse". The size and existence of the unobservable part of the universe cannot be determined, and it may not have originated through a similar process as the observable universe.
By Zhiwei Lu3 years ago in Earth
The ultimate fate of the Sun
The sun means everything to human beings and the earth. Almost all the energy on Earth comes from the sun, the most obvious is solar energy, but in fact, wind, water, coal, oil and natural gas and other chemical energy are solar energy in nature.
By Zhiwei Lu3 years ago in Earth
The universe is 93 billion light years across
For a century now, astronomers have been exploring more and more of the universe. Less than a hundred years ago, the Milky Way was thought to be our entire universe, but today we know that the universe contains hundreds of billion galaxies like it.
By Zhiwei Lu3 years ago in Earth
Do you know how big the universe really is?
The Earth, is all human beings, at least at present and in the foreseeable future human beings can not leave the earth to settle on other planets. So, for human beings, the Earth is our whole world, and human exploration of outer space has only begun in the last few hundred years, especially in the last few decades.
By Zhiwei Lu3 years ago in Earth
How big is the universe?
How big is the universe? The James Webb Space Telescope, 1.5 million kilometers from Earth, tells you the answer. Following the Hubble Space Telescope, the James Webb Space Telescope was launched and successfully reached the sun's orbit around the sun-Earth L2 Lagrange point, about 1.5 million kilometers from Earth.
By Zhiwei Lu3 years ago in Earth