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Naming the features of Pluto and Charon
Hey guys! Check out this website where you can nominate or vote for names that are given to the surface features of Pluto and it's moon Charon. It won't be long before NASA's New Horizons will be f...
"Laniakea"
Hey Everyone! I invite you to watch this video to see what the significance of this name is. In it you will learn a little bit about our corner of the universe, specifically the supercluster that t...
Crash Course
Hey Everyone,Here is Phil Plait's first crash course in astronomy video. It provides great explanations of the fundamental concepts involved in astronomy and you can find more of these on youtube. ...
Background Info on White Dwarfs
Hello Everyone!Here is a great write up on white dwarf stars and how they are created.http://science.nationalgeographic.com/science/spac...
Spiral Galaxy Simulation
Hey Everyone! Here is a computer simulation of what the first nine billion years of a spiral galaxy's evolution might look like. The research behind it was done by a group at Harvard. For this simu...
Embry Riddle's one meter telescope in action!
More on Galactic Halos
Here is a graphic to help you visualize the different regions in a galaxy. The distances are measured in kiloparsecs. One of these is equal to roughly 3260 light years! In astronomy the distances a...
This is exactly how I feel about astrophysics
"When I tell my friends that I study physics, they move their heads from side to side, they shake their hands at the wrist, and they whistle, "Whew! That's difficult". This universal reaction to th...