March 13. For as long as we have known this day has been dedicated to daylight saving time. It is known to be the most sleep deprived day for people all over most of the country. The words, "Spring fo…
Astronomy
The earliest categorization of stars was established in the 1860s by Italian astronomer Angelo Secchi. He was able to discover four spectral star types. 20 years later, women working at the Harvard Co…
Amazing, bright ball of gas. We have probably heard about Stars when we were young and drew them as 5 legged creatures etc. Stars come in all different sizes and lifespans, some go on to be really fas…
Frank Donald Drake was born in Chicago, Illinois USA on May 28th, 1930. His father Richard Drake was a chemical engineer working for the city of Chicago. Frank's mother Winifred Thompson met his fathe…
Didn't we all as children looked into to the sky , trying to spot a constellations? I think everyone would have done this and we would be soo excited as a child when we found it. If I ever get a chanc…
Imagine looking at the footsteps on the moon, as an astrophysicist you can look at the trajectory and movement of stars and see the details unable to be seen with the human eye as a job! you look thro…
Galileo Galilei's Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina, written in 1615, employs distinctive rhetoric to justify Copernicanism, fitting it within the Catholic Church's paradigms. He points out how th…
In the path of scientific discovery, the transition from one paradigm to another can come about through a variety of different reasons. In some cases, old paradigms are rejected due to discrepancies i…
