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How Earth’s Magnetic Field Shapes Auroras
Understanding Earth’s Magnetic Field Earth behaves like a giant magnet. Deep within the planet, molten iron in the outer core moves due to heat convection and planetary rotation. This movement generates electric currents, which in turn create a magnetic field—a process known as the geodynamo.
By shahkar jalalabout 18 hours ago in Education
Why Auroras Appear Near the Poles
What Are Auroras? Auroras are luminous displays that occur when charged particles from the Sun collide with gases in Earth’s upper atmosphere. These interactions produce light, creating colorful curtains, arcs, and spirals in the sky.
By shahkar jalalabout 18 hours ago in Education
Why Some Stars Appear Colored
The Science Behind Star Color Stars shine because they are massive spheres of hot plasma undergoing nuclear fusion. In their cores, hydrogen atoms fuse into helium, releasing enormous amounts of energy. That energy travels outward and radiates into space as electromagnetic radiation.
By shahkar jalalabout 18 hours ago in Education
What the System Forces You to Become
The Question the System Replaces By the time a person has passed through employment law, healthcare coverage rules, unemployment insurance, disability determination, and benefit eligibility, the relevant question has already shifted without ever being stated out loud. It is no longer whether the system helped or failed them. It is whether they managed to remain legible long enough to survive it. Each institutional layer imposes requirements that appear reasonable when viewed in isolation, yet become coercive when experienced sequentially:
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcastabout 18 hours ago in Education
How Human Vision Limits What We See in Space
The Basics of Human Vision To understand the limits, we must first understand how vision works. Light enters the eye through the cornea and pupil, is focused by the lens, and reaches the retina at the back of the eye. The retina contains two types of photoreceptor cells:
By shahkar jalalabout 18 hours ago in Education
How Binocular Astronomy Compares to Telescopes
Understanding the Basics: How Each Instrument Works Both binoculars and telescopes collect and magnify light from distant objects. The main goal is simple: gather more light than your eyes alone can collect and make distant objects appear closer.
By shahkar jalalabout 18 hours ago in Education
Why Stars Near the Horizon Look Distorted
The Role of Earth’s Atmosphere When starlight travels toward Earth, it moves through the vacuum of space without interference. However, once it enters Earth’s atmosphere, it must pass through layers of gases, dust, water vapor, and temperature variations.
By shahkar jalalabout 19 hours ago in Education
