Ever get curious about what goes on up there? Check out some amazing facts about the mysterious yet enthralling celestial environment!
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Ever get curious about what goes on up there? Check out some amazing facts about the mysterious yet enthralling celestial environment!
[Read more…] about Space Trivia: 20 fascinating facts about “the great void”!
You might have observed the brightest meteor shower of the year, the Perseids, that peak every year around August 10-15. Here are some things that you might not know.
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The mathematical model of the 20th century space-time continuum theory combines space and time into a single idea, where space is three-dimensional and time has the role of the fourth dimension. [Read more…] about Edgar Allan Poe one of the first supporters of the space-time continuum theory
Amongst every teacher, every child and every grown up that still thinks some stuff is funny, the name Uranus doesn’t really look to good for a planet. Especially since the original pronunciation sounds like “Your Anus” and even the alternative one like “Urine Us”. So why was it stuck with a name that we should avoid using?
Although the planet was discovered by William Herschel, who named the planet “The Georgium Sidis”, translating to “The Georgian Star”. This was the case because the king of england was king George III. Since people living outside England didn’t quite like this annotation, and since it wasn’t a star or an asteroid there was no law saying that Herschel would get to name it, there was a debate for a name. George was also suggested but this would be disrespectful to the King. Johann Bode suggested the name Uranus after the Greek name for “god of the sky”.
Nobody really knows if Bode really knew how it would be pronounced in english, if he did, it is a very long lasting joke.
Commander Chris Hadfield of the International Space Station conducted an interesting experiment in outer space, providing the answer to a baffling question. Can you cry in space? [Read more…] about Can you cry in Space?