When most people think of telescopes, they think of the tube-shaped refractor or reflector telescopes used by amateur astronomer. Others think big and remember that the great Hubble Telescope is out there in space, instead. In fact, there ar these and many other different types of telescopes.
The visual, or optical, telescopes have been around the longest. The first refracting telescope was constructed in about 1570. Galileo did some work on it and made it better. He improved it so much in fact that he ended up with a 20-power telescope. Read the rest of this entry »
The solar system consists of the sun, the nearest star to us, and the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto, as well as numerous comets, asteroids, meteoroids, and the interplanetary medium. The nine planets, along with their satellites, revolve around the sun in definite orbits. The planets and the satellites are said to be the members of the solar family or the solar system.
It is believed that the sun, the center-piece of the solar system, was born five billion years ago, emitting heat and light non-stop, and it is Read the rest of this entry »
If you want to measure our solar system, how would you do it? This simplest way is to measure it in light years. For those non familiar with the term, a light-year is the distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year. This is because the distances ‘tween stars is so huge that it is otherwise very challenging to imagine them. A light year is exactly 9,460,730,472,580.8 kilometers. Putting this into real world distances, the Milky Way is approximately 100,000 light-years across.
With more people than ever before excited about the release of a phone, the Galaxy Nexus was able to more than live up to expectations when it was released on November 17 2011. This smartphone was made by Nexus but was produced in co-operation with Google and was said to be the ‘next big thing’.
Weighing at just over 135 grams it’s a very sleek and small phone that operates on the much-loved Ice Cream Sandwich operating system (Android 4.0.1) that is said to be one of the better operating systems around.
It is amazing how many people around the world ar fascinated with the predictions for 2012. It is equally amazing astatine the number of people who know nothing about it. There have been many theories about the predicted Apocalypse in 2012. Will this significant date filled with mystery behold threats or blessings?
The question is why does the Mayan calendar, which is 5,000 years old, begin on August 3114 BC and end on December 21, 2012? According to Michael Drosnin’s bestseller “Bible Code” in 2012 (5772 on the Hebrew calendar) comets are expected to pound the Read the rest of this entry »
The Mayan 2012 Predictions The Mayan calendar ends December 21, 2012, Maya believes 2012 is the end of time as we know it. As stated above, the Maya calendar was very accurate, even more accurate than our modern day calendar. All the technology of today and the antediluvian Maya culture was still more precise with their calendar. Astronomers of today have just recently found that the Milky Way has a black hole, the Mayan culture knew this about the Milky Way 1,000′s of years ago without telescopes. The Mayan 2012 Prediction is that the Earth and Sun Read the rest of this entry »
Samsung is the latest electronics company that is making a move into the new world of touchscreen tablets. Following the success of the Apple iPad many electronics and mobile phone manufacturers have been keen to emulate this game-changing phenomenon by introducing their own take on this new technology. Samsung’s effort, the Galaxy Tab, looks to be one of the most interesting devices on show and is particularly notable for its more pocketable dimensions.
It seems that Samsung have taken note of the criticism levelled against the iPad and have sought to avoid these weaknesses in their Read the rest of this entry »
As we approach 2012, we care about the Mayas because 1) they predicted that the sunrise of the solstice sun on December 21, 2012 marks the end of a cycle of precedence at which time an alignment of the Sun and the center of the Milky Way occurs; this happens only every 26,000 years, and 2) their Long Count calendar ends on that same date, which some people interpret as the end of the world; the Mayas, however, did not predict such an ending.
Black holes (or gravity wells) look to be part and parcel of the ongoing process of creation as monumental amounts of matter get sucked down into terrifyingly huge cosmic drain holes some weighing as much as billions of solar masses. What happens to all the mass that gets consumed by black holes? It is instantly transformed back into pure energy in a dimension outside of space and time, which then reappears back in our own universe as the universally expansive force of dark energy.
