Jean Tate
What Is The Crab Nebula?
The Crab Nebula, or M1 (the first object in Messier's famous catalog), is a supernova remnant and pulsar wind nebula.…
What are WIMPs?
WIMPs are Weakly Interacting Massive Particles, hypothetical particles which may be the main (or only) component of Dark Matter, a…
Altazimuth
Altazimuth is a contraction of altitude-azimuth; in astronomy it most often refers to a type of telescope mount (and is…
Black Dwarf
[/caption] A black dwarf is a white dwarf that has cooled down to the temperature of the cosmic microwave background,…
Supernova 1987A
[/caption] The first supernova in 1987 (that's what the "A" means) was the brightest supernova in several centuries (and the…
Kepler’s Third Law
[/caption] "The square of the orbital period of a planet is proportional to the cube of the semi-major axis of…
Abiogenesis
[/caption] How did life on Earth arise? Scientific efforts to answer that question are called abiogenesis. More formally, abiogenesis is…
Hawking Radiation
[/caption] When humans starve, they grow thin and eventually die; when a black hole starves, it too grows thin and…
Chandrasekhar Limit
[/caption] When a human puts on too much weight, there is an increased risk of heart attack; when a white…