What Happens When the Sun's Magnetic Poles Flip?
Our friendly, neighborhood star undergoes a major change every 11 years. The last occurred in 2014. Learn what happens when the sun’s magnetic …
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How Much of a Threat is Space Junk?
Not content with polluting the Earth and its atmosphere we are now cluttering up space with dead, useless satellites and other assorted space junk. In …
Continue ReadingHow Stars Are Named: Why This Menagerie of Names & Catalog Numbers For Extrasolar Planets?
The discovery of hundreds of extrasolar planets has revealed a weakness in scientific research: Astronomers are no good at naming them!!
Continue ReadingDiscovery and Utilization of Water on Mars
The search for water on Mars has been a long one. It has taken us years to discover overwhelming evidence showing water flowing on the red planet. One …
Continue ReadingAre Black Holes Real: Chandra Suggests Proof - NGC 3115 with Hot Gas Backflow
Science fact is verifiable science fiction. In the matter of black holes, at what point does—or did—the transition from fiction to the fact occur? …
Continue ReadingRetirement of the Space Shuttle Program is Wrong
Watching the Atlantis arrive from its last voyage into space was a remarkable moment for all Americans. After 30 brilliant years of triumph and …
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