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Whoa. Twice a year, at ”solar noon” — a time when the sun is highest in the sky (not actually noon on a clock) — there are no shadows. This is because of Hawai’i’s position on the globe. It doesn’t happen in any other state in the U.S. but it does occur in 80% of […]
Read it »You may have heard of your “sign” — sometimes called your “Zodiac sign” or your “star sign.” It’s a name that corresponds to mythology but also to stellar constellations. So why do you have the sign you have? Your sign is kind of, sort of related to the constellation that rises in the western night […]
Read it »Watch the story of the New Horizons probe which was sent to explore Pluto in 2015. Pluto is a scientific goldmine. It’s located in a region of space called the Kuiper Belt, where there are many small planets and trillions of comets. It takes 248 Earth years for Pluto to orbit our sun. Creating the […]
Read it »NASA sent a small drone helicopter to Mars as part of the Perseverance rover. Dr. Becky explains how it could work and reacts to NASA’s broadcast. Did it fly?
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Read it »Gravity and radiation keep stars in balance. But when they run out of energy, they collapse in on themselves. What happens next depends on how much mass they have.
Read it »Most moons we observe are tidally-locked to the planets they orbit. This means the same side of the moon faces the planet at all times. What if the earth were tidally-locked with the sun?!? That would mean that only one side of earth would face the sun’s heat and light at all times. This video […]
Read it »There is a 1:1,000,000,000 scale (that’s one-billionth) model of our solar system along St Kilda beach in Melbourne, Australia. It’s probably the only way you’ll ever be able to tell your friends you hiked from Pluto to Mercury.
Read it »Carolyn Porco discusses how samples gathered from icy geysers on Saturn’s moon Enceladus hint that an ocean under its surface could harbor life.
Read it »Jocelyn Bell Burnell is the astronomer who discovered pulsars. A man got the credit for it. Watch this true story about a groundbreaking scientist who was overlooked through history.
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