Critique of the 2015 Carter/Sarfati Paper Titled: “Why the Universe
... Carter/Sarfati: Questions about how the universe works are not always easy to answer. For many centuries most people (scientists and philosophers included) thought the earth was at its center and that the planets, moon, sun, and stars revolved around us. This is called “geocentrism” or the “geocentr ...
... Carter/Sarfati: Questions about how the universe works are not always easy to answer. For many centuries most people (scientists and philosophers included) thought the earth was at its center and that the planets, moon, sun, and stars revolved around us. This is called “geocentrism” or the “geocentr ...
Lightning climatology of exoplanets and brown dwarfs guided by
... flashes km−2 yr−1 . We reproduce their results from the original data to be ∼2 flashes km−2 yr−1 for the annual average and ∼163 flashes km−2 yr−1 for maximum values. The left-hand column of Fig. 2 shows maps with annual stroke densities (strokes km−2 yr−1 ) from STARNET data for the years 2009 (top ...
... flashes km−2 yr−1 . We reproduce their results from the original data to be ∼2 flashes km−2 yr−1 for the annual average and ∼163 flashes km−2 yr−1 for maximum values. The left-hand column of Fig. 2 shows maps with annual stroke densities (strokes km−2 yr−1 ) from STARNET data for the years 2009 (top ...
special - Carl Zeiss
... True to the company’s motto “We make it visible,” optical systems from Carl Zeiss help deliver many new and sometimes unexpected insights and perspectives. Key optical technologies use light to recognize new phenomena and create new products. ...
... True to the company’s motto “We make it visible,” optical systems from Carl Zeiss help deliver many new and sometimes unexpected insights and perspectives. Key optical technologies use light to recognize new phenomena and create new products. ...
OCO-2 Data to Lead Scientists Forward into the Past
... Early Saturday morning before dawn, the faint asteroid 611 Valeria will occult an 8.7-magnitude star in Pisces for observers along a track crossing northern Mexico, Texas, the Deep South (including the Atlanta area) and the Carolinas. Details, times, finder chart. Saturday, July 19 Mars at dusk is s ...
... Early Saturday morning before dawn, the faint asteroid 611 Valeria will occult an 8.7-magnitude star in Pisces for observers along a track crossing northern Mexico, Texas, the Deep South (including the Atlanta area) and the Carolinas. Details, times, finder chart. Saturday, July 19 Mars at dusk is s ...
TAKS objective 5 Earth and Space Systems
... Two important ways that oceans affect climate on land 1. Land heats up faster than water because land has a lower specific heat than water does. This causes the air over land to heat faster than the air over water. The warm air rises, starting a convection current that pulls air toward land from th ...
... Two important ways that oceans affect climate on land 1. Land heats up faster than water because land has a lower specific heat than water does. This causes the air over land to heat faster than the air over water. The warm air rises, starting a convection current that pulls air toward land from th ...
Effect of the stellar spin history on the tidal evolution of close
... planet’s evolution is apparent for less massive (1 M⊕ ) planets and typical dissipation values. We also find that planetary evolution can have significant effects on the stellar spin history. In particular, when a planet falls onto the star, it can cause the star to spin up. Conclusions. Tidal evolut ...
... planet’s evolution is apparent for less massive (1 M⊕ ) planets and typical dissipation values. We also find that planetary evolution can have significant effects on the stellar spin history. In particular, when a planet falls onto the star, it can cause the star to spin up. Conclusions. Tidal evolut ...
Meteorites and the Early Solar System
... Stony-Iron Meteorites - Mesosiderites Mesosiderites are among the strangest of all meteorites. They are a breccia of an approximately equal mixture of silicates and metal that is indicative of multiple and repeated impacts. The silicate material is somewhat similar to the eucrite material found in ...
... Stony-Iron Meteorites - Mesosiderites Mesosiderites are among the strangest of all meteorites. They are a breccia of an approximately equal mixture of silicates and metal that is indicative of multiple and repeated impacts. The silicate material is somewhat similar to the eucrite material found in ...
Science Planet Project-Uranus update final
... Does Uranus have water in any form? • It all comes down to density. The density of Uranus is the second least in the Solar System, after Saturn. In fact, it has a density that’s only a little higher than water. Since water is very common in the outer Solar System, astronomers suspect that the whole ...
... Does Uranus have water in any form? • It all comes down to density. The density of Uranus is the second least in the Solar System, after Saturn. In fact, it has a density that’s only a little higher than water. Since water is very common in the outer Solar System, astronomers suspect that the whole ...
Sample pages 1 PDF
... as our observations cannot penetrate the opaque core where all this interesting nuclear physics is occurring. Therefore, most AGB stars are classified as M, R, N or S, designations that have mostly been replaced by a collective term C, or “carbon stars.” Such stars have an abundance of carbon or oxyg ...
... as our observations cannot penetrate the opaque core where all this interesting nuclear physics is occurring. Therefore, most AGB stars are classified as M, R, N or S, designations that have mostly been replaced by a collective term C, or “carbon stars.” Such stars have an abundance of carbon or oxyg ...
Planet formation
... Snow line: 2.7 AU from the Sun, temperatures are low enough that molecules appear in the form of icy grains, and dust grains have sufficiently low temperatures to capture ice molecules in their mantles. The Snow line is crucial for the planet formation process, as ice-covered grains are suggested to ...
... Snow line: 2.7 AU from the Sun, temperatures are low enough that molecules appear in the form of icy grains, and dust grains have sufficiently low temperatures to capture ice molecules in their mantles. The Snow line is crucial for the planet formation process, as ice-covered grains are suggested to ...
The View from New Horizons: A Full Day on Pluto
... Capella passes straight overhead, or nearly so, around 7 or 8 p.m. (depending on how far west or east you are in your time zone). It goes exactly through your zenith if you're at latitude 46° north: for example Portland, Oregon; Montreal; central France. And whenever Capella passes highest, Rigel in ...
... Capella passes straight overhead, or nearly so, around 7 or 8 p.m. (depending on how far west or east you are in your time zone). It goes exactly through your zenith if you're at latitude 46° north: for example Portland, Oregon; Montreal; central France. And whenever Capella passes highest, Rigel in ...
About the Instructor`s Guide
... If you can make the series available for students to watch on reserve at your department library, you may wish to assign the Cosmos episodes for individual viewing on students’ own time. For example, you might assign one episode per week or one episode every 2 weeks. Although this means that the top ...
... If you can make the series available for students to watch on reserve at your department library, you may wish to assign the Cosmos episodes for individual viewing on students’ own time. For example, you might assign one episode per week or one episode every 2 weeks. Although this means that the top ...
Astronomical Picture of the Day
... enormous elliptical galaxy that includes dark dust lanes usually found in a spiral. The above image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope shows details, however, that help in reconstructing the history of this gigantic jumble. Close inspection finds fewer low mass globular clusters of stars toward NGC ...
... enormous elliptical galaxy that includes dark dust lanes usually found in a spiral. The above image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope shows details, however, that help in reconstructing the history of this gigantic jumble. Close inspection finds fewer low mass globular clusters of stars toward NGC ...
M sin i
... samples. But assuming dN / dlog a ~ const, one can estimate how many are missing. EXTRASOLAR PLANETS ESO September 2005 Dante Minniti (U. Católica) ...
... samples. But assuming dN / dlog a ~ const, one can estimate how many are missing. EXTRASOLAR PLANETS ESO September 2005 Dante Minniti (U. Católica) ...
A Map of the Universe
... The 22nd picture, at a scale of 1/1022 shows all of the Milky Way Galaxy. The 26th and last picture in the sequence shows galaxies out to a distance of 750 million light years. A further sequence of pictures labeled 0, −1, −2, ... − 13, starting with a life size picture of the girl’s hand, shows a s ...
... The 22nd picture, at a scale of 1/1022 shows all of the Milky Way Galaxy. The 26th and last picture in the sequence shows galaxies out to a distance of 750 million light years. A further sequence of pictures labeled 0, −1, −2, ... − 13, starting with a life size picture of the girl’s hand, shows a s ...
P1 09 Red Shift - Animated Science
... (a) A student listens to the sound waves produced by a car siren. When the car is stationary, the student hears a constant frequency sound. Describe how the wavelength and frequency of the sound waves heard by the student change when the car is driven away from the student. ...
... (a) A student listens to the sound waves produced by a car siren. When the car is stationary, the student hears a constant frequency sound. Describe how the wavelength and frequency of the sound waves heard by the student change when the car is driven away from the student. ...
Family Space Day Overview - Lunar and Planetary Institute
... end of one of the string through the semi-circle cut and knot it around a straw at the box top so that the string does not pull through when tugged on from the inside of the lid. When the lid is placed on the box, the pompom should hang down in the box in front of the flashlight. It should be able t ...
... end of one of the string through the semi-circle cut and knot it around a straw at the box top so that the string does not pull through when tugged on from the inside of the lid. When the lid is placed on the box, the pompom should hang down in the box in front of the flashlight. It should be able t ...
What Can You See With a Telescope
... Pallas is about 350 miles in diameter. Vesta is about 340 miles in diameter. Juno is the smallest. It is about 145 miles in diameter. William Herschel attempted to measure the size of Ceres and Pallas by looking at the asteroids through a telescope with one eye and comparing them to a small disk of ...
... Pallas is about 350 miles in diameter. Vesta is about 340 miles in diameter. Juno is the smallest. It is about 145 miles in diameter. William Herschel attempted to measure the size of Ceres and Pallas by looking at the asteroids through a telescope with one eye and comparing them to a small disk of ...
Homework Assignment #7: The Moon
... seven heavenly bodies “wandering” among the stars on the celestial sphere. These seven heavenly bodies were the sun, the moon and the planets Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. The outermost planets (Neptune, Uranus and Pluto) also “wander” but the ancients didn't know about them because you ...
... seven heavenly bodies “wandering” among the stars on the celestial sphere. These seven heavenly bodies were the sun, the moon and the planets Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. The outermost planets (Neptune, Uranus and Pluto) also “wander” but the ancients didn't know about them because you ...
Pluto Reading
... usually orbits past the orbit of Neptune. It was classified as a dwarf planet in 2006; before that it was considered to be a planet, the smallest planet in our solar system. There are many other dwarf planets in our Solar System. Pluto is smaller than a lot of the other planets' moons, including our ...
... usually orbits past the orbit of Neptune. It was classified as a dwarf planet in 2006; before that it was considered to be a planet, the smallest planet in our solar system. There are many other dwarf planets in our Solar System. Pluto is smaller than a lot of the other planets' moons, including our ...
Space, Earth and Celestial Objects Test Prep
... Most known asteroids are found orbiting the Sun approximately halfway between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, in a vast ring known as the Asteroid Belt. Occasionally, though, an asteroid leaves this orbit belt and moves into a more eccentric orbit that brings it into the inner solar system. This sud ...
... Most known asteroids are found orbiting the Sun approximately halfway between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, in a vast ring known as the Asteroid Belt. Occasionally, though, an asteroid leaves this orbit belt and moves into a more eccentric orbit that brings it into the inner solar system. This sud ...
r202 the new astronomy
... bands, centred at 12, 25, 60 and 100 microns. At the symposium, “Light on Dark Matter”, the scientific results of this mission were reviewed for the first time in a comprehensive way, with special emphasis on processes of star formation, late evolutionary stages of stars, galaxy properties, and the ...
... bands, centred at 12, 25, 60 and 100 microns. At the symposium, “Light on Dark Matter”, the scientific results of this mission were reviewed for the first time in a comprehensive way, with special emphasis on processes of star formation, late evolutionary stages of stars, galaxy properties, and the ...
Who Built the Moon?
... proven by empiric means. In a recent poll it was found that no less than ninety-two per cent of Americans say they believe in God1 – and other surveys indicate that many millions of people are equally convinced that aliens have ...
... proven by empiric means. In a recent poll it was found that no less than ninety-two per cent of Americans say they believe in God1 – and other surveys indicate that many millions of people are equally convinced that aliens have ...
What CAN You See With a Telescope?
... manage to see objects of 14th magnitude on very dark nights 5 . The faintest objects detectable with today’s largest groundbased telescopes are about magnitude 30. Rotation Rates Influence Asteroid Brightness Early astronomers had used their telescopes to measure the rotation rate of the Sun and ...
... manage to see objects of 14th magnitude on very dark nights 5 . The faintest objects detectable with today’s largest groundbased telescopes are about magnitude 30. Rotation Rates Influence Asteroid Brightness Early astronomers had used their telescopes to measure the rotation rate of the Sun and ...
Astronomy and Astrophysics (ASTRO)
... planetary systems: dynamics, thermodynamics, internal and surface structure of planets and minor bodies, physics of their atmosphere. Discovery techniques and characterization of extrasolar planets, and planetary systems formation models. "Grand tour" of the Solar System, using data and imagery from ...
... planetary systems: dynamics, thermodynamics, internal and surface structure of planets and minor bodies, physics of their atmosphere. Discovery techniques and characterization of extrasolar planets, and planetary systems formation models. "Grand tour" of the Solar System, using data and imagery from ...
Astrobiology
Astrobiology is the study of the origin, evolution, distribution, and future of life in the universe: extraterrestrial life and life on Earth. This interdisciplinary field encompasses the search for habitable environments in our Solar System and habitable planets outside our Solar System, the search for evidence of prebiotic chemistry, laboratory and field research into the origins and early evolution of life on Earth, and studies of the potential for life to adapt to challenges on Earth and in outer space. Astrobiology addresses the question of whether life exists beyond Earth, and how humans can detect it if it does. (The term exobiology is similar but more specific—it covers the search for life beyond Earth, and the effects of extraterrestrial environments on living things.)Astrobiology makes use of physics, chemistry, astronomy, biology, molecular biology, ecology, planetary science, geography, and geology to investigate the possibility of life on other worlds and help recognize biospheres that might be different from the biosphere on Earth. The origin and early evolution of life is an inseparable part of the discipline of astrobiology. Astrobiology concerns itself with interpretation of existing scientific data; given more detailed and reliable data from other parts of the universe, the roots of astrobiology itself—physics, chemistry and biology—may have their theoretical bases challenged. Although speculation is entertained to give context, astrobiology concerns itself primarily with hypotheses that fit firmly into existing scientific theories.The chemistry of life may have begun shortly after the Big Bang, 13.8 billion years ago, during a habitable epoch when the Universe was only 10–17 million years old. According to the panspermia hypothesis, microscopic life—distributed by meteoroids, asteroids and other small Solar System bodies—may exist throughout the universe. According to research published in August 2015, very large galaxies may be more favorable to the creation and development of habitable planets than smaller galaxies, like the Milky Way galaxy. Nonetheless, Earth is the only place in the universe known to harbor life. Estimates of habitable zones around other stars, along with the discovery of hundreds of extrasolar planets and new insights into the extreme habitats here on Earth, suggest that there may be many more habitable places in the universe than considered possible until very recently.Current studies on the planet Mars by the Curiosity and Opportunity rovers are now searching for evidence of ancient life as well as plains related to ancient rivers or lakes that may have been habitable. The search for evidence of habitability, taphonomy (related to fossils), and organic molecules on the planet Mars is now a primary NASA objective on Mars.