Carlito's Way

Multiple black holes have collided in the past, and scientists are now looking to the reason why certain ones collide. Two black holes collided in July and an article was recently published on November 15 at Xiv.org. This collision is the fifth collision on record. Scientists figure out the collision by measuring the gravitational waves. The gravitational waves warp the fabric of spacetime by using small vibrations. Normally, when there are vibrations found there is a lot of publicity. For this

The transit of Venus, seen from Earth as a small, dark disk crossing over the sun, is one of the rarest astronomical events to ever witness. If you missed it back in 2012 then chances are you’ll never see it again in your lifetime. In order for the transit to happen, Venus’ orbit has to align just right so that the planet is positioned exactly between the Earth and the sun. The transit has helped astronomers learn more about Venus’ atmosphere, the width of the sun, the size of the solar system, and

Despite Edmunds early life, he got an education and exceeded in classics, mathematics, and astronomy, leading him to the discovery of Halley’s comet. Edmund was always on the move. His life included many discoveries and achievements. Edmund Halley was born on November 8, 1656 in Haggerston, United Kingdom. He grew up in a wealthy family of merchants and soup broilers. As a child, Edmund grew to love astronomy after seeing two comets when he was eight years old.Throughout his education, he excelled

Challenges are involved in everyone’s lives one way or the other. Challenges could be as simple as not being able to wake up in the morning to not being able attend school because of terror. As for me, my whole life has been a challenge. The fact that I’m an illegal Mexican living in the United States, puts me up even into bigger problems. People surrounding me think that my success was given to me like gifts on Christmas day. I wished it was like that, but it was completely the opposite. My life

Being one of the youngest, I had to fashion new ways of how to do things to make sure I was never left behind. Whether it was making a poster from remnants of craft supplies or getting a sponsorship for my next handball tournament, I was able to do it by myself. Growing up I didn’t take much thought

A possible external threat from space that could result in the extinction of human life on Earth is a supernova. A supernova is an explosion of a star in the universe. There are more than a hundred billion stars in our milky way galaxy (226). Most of the star explosions happen fairly far away from our solar system. However, because our sun orbits the galaxy we will be neighbouring different sets of stars at different points in time. Sometimes we are even just tens of light years away from a supernova

level of understanding. As the seconds spanned on, the montage faded onto into of the reactions of the mothers that were being told of the bad news, and each were different. Some experienced instance sorrow, but ‘accepted’ the fact in a subtle sort of way, others were confused, and many underwent denial. This is exclusively seen in the first woman that was confronted with the news, in which she outright refused to believe her husband was dead. So yes, as the men who were fighting on the battlefield were

Introduction What is SDSS? The Sloan Digital Sky Survey is on of the most incredibly demanding and far-reaching astronomical survey ever attempted, so far having created the some of the most detailed three-dimensional maps of the Universe that have ever been made, with deep multi-colour images of a significant portion of the sky (about one third), and spectra for over three million celestial objects. The survey plans to eventually map the entire sky in enormous detail, such as measuring the distances

While usually a milky greenish color, auroras can also show red, blue, violet, pink, and white. These colors appear in a variety of continuously changing shapes. Sometimes the aurora is so dim and scattered as to be mistaken for clouds or the Milky Way; sometimes it is bright enough to read by. What does an aurora look like? Auroras can appear as long, narrow arcs of light, often extending east to west

The Milky Way is flat and disk shaped collection of gas dust and stars. It is 100,000 light years across and 7,000 light years thick. The Milky Way’s dish has two major spiral arms and two minor ones that comes together in of the galaxy. In the center of the disk is a cylinder bar that has a collection of old red stars. The Milky Way is visible on a moonless night only if you are in very dark spot where you would see a faint fuzzy glow in the sky. If Sagittarius and Scorpius are visible you notice