Without the magnetosphere, the Earth’s atmosphere would have been destroyed by the solar wind long ago. It stretches way beyond satellites’ reach, and is affected both by the Earth and the Sun. It protects humans, living on both Earth and in space, from the high-energy particles. […]
Aurora is colorful lights that show the magnetic flow direction near the Poles. They owe their mysterious beauty to photons emitted from electrons and are formed in the thermosphere. What happens that electrons release photons in the thermosphere? […]
The atmosphere has numerous layers, two of the most important of which are the troposphere and stratosphere. The significance of these layers in human life lies in things that happen there: weather and its components, planes and their passengers, and about 80% of the atmosphere’s mass. […]
The turn of the 21st century led to a series of scientific breakthroughs, including the discovery of dark energy, the mysterious energy which drives the speeding expansion of the universe. Read on to find more. […]
Read about the Inflationary theory, which solved the loopholes in the Big Bang theory, and ultimately also led to the discovery of the existence of dark matter. […]
Read about the Big Bang theory, one of the pioneering breakthroughs in the world of cosmology, which opened the doors for countless applications, and went on to explicate the origin of the universe. […]
Mercury is the second densest planet of our solar system, second only to earth. Mercury, surprisingly, also has a global magnetic field, which exists due to a strange phenomenon called antifreeze. […]
What are the secrets hidden underneath the surface of Mercury? What do the Craters and Mercury hollows reveal about the Mercury? And how could there still be water on the surface of Mercury? […]
The Apollo Program has been a revolutionary one for several reasons. Beginning in the 1960s, the many missions under this program has brought back valuable data that have provided us with insights about the Moon and its various features. […]
Uncovering the strange patterns of Mercury sky: How the sun follows an unusual motion in the Mercury sky, and how one can stay in the sun’s terminal line? […]
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