Neutron Stars are born from the deaths of stars. When a star dies‚ if it is not massive enough to become a black hole‚ it becomes a neutron star. A neutron star has a mass between one to 3 suns compressed into the size of central park. A sugar cube sized slice of a neutron star will weigh around 10 billion tons(around the mass of Mt. Everest). The reason it can do this is because hydrogen atoms(the simplest and lightest material) are around 99.9999999999996% empty space. The atoms in this star
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Radiation Factors Risk Assessment When colonizing Mars‚ there are a variety of different hazards that can affect the astronauts colonizing‚ including radiation. Radiation is found everywhere in outer space. It can cause cancer‚ death‚ and a decrease in blood count. According to the impact vs. probability matrix‚ radiation is rated as a 25 due to the high chance of being exposed and the high probability that radiation will negatively impact the astronauts’ future. As astronauts leave the protection
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Titanic “The Unsinkable ship” The Titanic was known as "the unsinkable ship". She was the largest ship afloat at the time of her maiden voyage in April of 1912‚ during which she collided with an iceberg. She was the second of three Olympic class ocean liners operated by the White Star Line. A numerous amount of people believe that the collision that occurred on April 15‚ 1912 was The Titanic’s sister ship The Olympic‚ and that the wreckage was premeditated and was used to commit insurance fraud
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Introduction Our human nature is to question and seek truth about everything in this world. For many centuries the origin of human kind was not a debated topic and all believed that the creation story of genesis where God’s hands over a six-day period created all that we know. This common knowledge was challenged in 1755 by a German Philosopher named Immanuel Kant (Macpherson‚ 1911) He was known as the central figure of modern philosophy and created the theory that the earth was much older then
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“This is a man’s world‚ but it wouldn’t be nothing without a woman” (Brown). This iconic song from James Brown is especially true in the field of astronomy as Jocelyn Bell is one of the very few women within its field accredited for making a significant contribution to its study. On top of this there are not too many contributions being made to astronomy in the 21st century‚ however‚ Jocelyn Bell is one of a select few who have made a modern day contribution to the field. Jocelyn Bell discovered
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The Apollo Missions were launched by NASA between 1961 and 1975. The missions collected much scientific data that helped us understand more about space and especially the moon. In many of the manned and unmanned missions collected many rock samples. In this certain study they found that the moon had many magma rocks on the moon. This fact surprised many scientists because space is very cold (as we all know) and magma rocks are formed from extreme heat or pressure. The magma rocks were only found
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‘An accidental universe is as likely as a created one.’ Discuss Stephen Hawking‚ one of the World’s leading scientists‚ released a new book in 2010 called‚ ‘The Grand Design.’ He and his co-author‚ Leonard Mlodinow‚ stated that‚ ‘you don’t need God to create the universe because the laws of gravity and a certain version of quantum physics suffice to make it inevitable that the universe will create itself‚ out of nothing‚ in an infinite variety of forms; and given an infinite variety of forms‚ a
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The evolution of the early universe was the aftermath of the big bang. The early stages of the universe evolved which lead to the creation of matter and the separation of what is now known as the four fundamental particles of the universe. The creation of matter in the early universe was aided by the four fundamental forces‚ the strong force‚ the weak force‚ the electromagnetic force and the force of gravity. The standard model includes the three of the four fundamental forces excluding gravity
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The Big Bang Theory is believed to be the most probable and reasonable explanation to how the universe was created‚ is a widely discussed topic among cosmologists and astrophysicists. The Big Bang theory is about an event that explains the origins of the universe. It relates heavily to the sciences of cosmology and astrophysics. It is a widely accepted theory among people all across the world‚ and is also a widely discussed topic that has not been entirely explained yet. Many are still left
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Lesson 1: Our Solar System What makes up our solar system? When we think of the solar system most of us think of eight planets orbiting around the sun. However‚ the solar system is a lot more complicated‚ larger and exciting than this simple description. The solar system is a gravitationally bound system with all the objects in this system revolving around the sun. The eight planets revolving around the sun are: Mercury‚ Venus‚ Earth‚ Mars‚ Jupitar‚ Saturn‚ Neputune‚ Uranus and Pluto. However‚ the
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