Sentences with phrase «facts about astronomy»

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Just as amazing as the fact that this is happening is the fact that we can watch it happen through live broadcasts set up by the ESA, NASA and Slooh, the online astronomy community, though there will be about a 27 - minute delay due to distance.

Give your kids the opportunity to discover fun facts about each planet with this Astronomy Unit Study: Planets — Every Star is Different

Discover thousands of fascinating facts about physics, biology, maths, astronomy, chemistry, and more.

Combining the history of astronomy with the latest advances in space age technologies, this exciting coloring book combined fun with facts about space exploration and our solar system.

«Magnetic fields provide crucial information about the interiors and evolution of planets, so it is gratifying that our experiments can test — and in fact, support — the thin - dynamo idea that had been proposed for explaining the truly strange magnetic fields of Uranus and Neptune,» said Raymond Jeanloz, co-author on the paper and professor in Earth & Planetary Physics and Astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley.

Most people would probably agree that astronomy is an inspiring subject, blowing our minds with astonishing facts about exploding stars, extrasolar planets and supermassive black holes while beguiling our eyes with awesome vistas of alien worlds and distant galaxies.

Mark Read intersperses historical fact with dramatic fiction in a series of 20 reinterpreted stories about key figures in the history of astronomy, from Aristotle to Newton.

«The polarization of the waves coming from the background quasar, combined with the fact that the waves producing the two lensed images traveled through different parts of the intervening galaxy, allowed us to learn some important facts about the galaxy's magnetic field,» said Sui Ann Mao, Minerva Research Group Leader for the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany.

«What stood out for us about Jenny was the fact that she teaches astronomy and is already familiar with NASA resources, as well as her educational technology background,» Olson says.

In the video, Levin, a professor of physics and astronomy at Columbia University and the author of Black Hole Blues, gives some facts about space, black holes, and the «sound» that is created by the two massive black holes colliding in space.

One is reminded of the apocryphal tale about Bertrand Russell, who, when giving a talk on astronomy, was challenged by an elderly woman who insisted the world was in fact a flat plate, resting on the back of an enormous turtle.