... . [Photography]. Retrieved from Encyclopædia Britannica ImageQuest. http://quest.eb.com/search/132_1299822/1/132_1299822/cite When an exoplanet passes directly between its star and Kepler's line of sight, it dims a minuscule portion of the star's light. An exoplanet is a planet that is outside our Solar System. There have been thousands discovered and they range in size, temperatures, orbital periods and composition. One ... be able to get to this planet. The first problem would be to have the ability to get to the planet. Currently, there are no [known] methods of transportation to get...

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... 000 years ago, a star in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a galaxy close to the Milky Way, burst itself in a majestic, yet violent death, an outstanding example of a supernova explosion. From this exploding star, light and other forms of radiation spread outward in all directions, traveling six trillion miles each year, with radiation passing into dust-shrouded interstellar clouds, speeding through the nearly empty reaches ... core exerts a force so strong that everything contained in the star is forcefully pushed outward at an extremely high rate of speed. When the star explodes, the force c...

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... you have a pillow and you take away everything else in the universe, it is still a pillow. But since time is measured only by the rotation of the earth and the solar system, then if you take everything in the universe away time does not exist. There is nothing to measure it with, ... of the solar system and the planets in it. It is divided up in year, hours, and seconds. But what is a second? How long is it? And who was given the divine power to answer these questions. Albert Einstein said, "If! you could travel at the speed of light then time would stand still." A light- ... year is th...

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... when the Earth dies. Cooper agreed to be man for the mission and took off for his trip. When in space Cooper and his ship mates are moving near the speed of light because they are near the black hole Gargantua, They travel to multiple planets that other explorers had landed on during the Lazarus Missions in an attempt to rescue them and ... death bed as an old woman. This can be explained scientifically because relativity is by definition "the dependence of various physical phenomena on relative motion of the observer and the observed objects, especially regarding the nature and behavio...

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... any deviation. The neutrino has a distinctive property; its spin is oriented in the direction opposite to its velocity, which is said to be of left helicity. The anti-neutrino is always of right helicity, which is the same direction as the velocity. Wolfgang Pauli was the first to suggest a solution for the missing energy in ... experiment to detect neutrinos they used a liquid chlorine target deep underground. The reports showed that less than half the expected neutrinos are observed. This is the origin of the "solar neutrino problem." In 1985 a large water detector is used to look for ...

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... see. Humans only see a very small part of the entire electromagnetic spectrum. The electromagnetic spectrum includes gamma rays, X-rays, ultraviolet, visible, infrared, microwaves, and radio waves. The difference between these types of radiation is their wavelength and frequency. Wavelength increases and frequency decreases from gamma rays to radio waves. All forms of radiation travel at the speed of light. Infrared radiation lies between the visible and ... microwave sections of the electromagnetic spectrum. Infrared waves have wavelengths longer than visible and shorter than microwave...

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... Galaxy, which is also a spiral galaxy like ours. But, the Andromeda galaxy is 4 times as large as the milky way and is located 2 million light years away from us and can be seen through the southern hemisphere of the galaxy. The nine planets in our solar system that orbit the sun orbit in a counter-clockwise direction rotating on a plane knows as the ... or space, which exploded between 10 and 20 billion years ago. Edwin Hubble with his theory that the universe is expanding supports evidence of this theory. He noticed that distance galaxies have a red shift meaning the wavelength in the...

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... , "and Earth would fly out in a straight line tangent to where ever it was in its orbit" () This is because gravitational force propagates in waves moving at the speed of light. So now poor, little Earth is hurtling through space, in a perpetual night, but we wouldn't be completely in the dark. We would still have the rest ... of the galaxy producing light. In 2004, a scientist () calculated that the Milky Way alone produces about 1/300th of a full Moon. It's not much but it's enough to help us see around. Not only that but we would still have fossil fuels ... at about 108,000 km/h (67,...

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... , Clark Kent is the one and only Superman. Conceived on the doomed planet Krypton, scientist Jor-El sent his son Kal-El on a hyper light rocket off into space. The tiny rocket landed on earth and was recovered by a Kansas farming couple, Jonathan and Martha Kent. They found the tiny ... have his powers. Using his powers causes Clark to use up his stored yellow sun energy. He can loose his powers if he expends a lot of energy quickly, or if he spends too much time away from the yellow sun while on outer space. Superman's powers include: Strength-Varies depending on ... his energy levels; ...

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... shielding us from cosmic rays (very energetic particles generated far away in the universe) which can cause damage to living cells. The shape of the heliosphere, although never fully observed, is thought to be like a protective bubble encasing the solar system. However, it isn"t symmetrical around ... out into a tail at the back, much like a planetary magnetosphere. Recent data from the Voyager 1 and 2 space probes have shed new light on the subject. Since 1992, fifteen years after their launch for a supposed four-year flight, they have begun picking up intense low-frequency ... of inte...

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... described as "dirty snowballs" because they are icy lumps, or wandering icebergs. Comets are relatively tiny- just a few miles across on average. Their nuclei are very different from glowing balls of light, with multimillion-mile-long tails. This is one reason comets occasionally visit the inner Solar System. Astronomers divide comets into long-period types with orbits ... ionized molecules, including carbon monoxide and dioxide. By action of solar wind, molecules are blown away, forming a thin stream of hot gases continuously ejected from the solar corona. In case you do not know the m...

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... have. These businesses will take on large efforts to help raise the temperature and the amount of oxygen in the atmosphere. Some of these large projects are things like large mirrors orbiting the planet to redirect light in the direction of the planet. Deep holes drilled in the surface of the planet by self-fueling robots, robots that have the capability to fuel them selves ... exist before a large percent of the planet's surface was capable of sustaining human life, someone would have to take a lot of factors into consideration before spending a considerable amount of money on a projec...

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... until technology increased to a level which would help them explore their curiosities. In the mid 1950's, The Pioneer Space Program began revealing many answers to scientists. Over time this consisted of thirteen satellite's which all possessed objectives in which some were related, and others entirely different. The Pioneer Space Program progressed through four stages: Pioneer's 1-5, Pioneers 6-9, Pioneers 10 and 11, ... their accomplishments. Through extensive travel and extreme reliability, these spacecraft revealed many answers while setting the stage for further exploration of the o...

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