Yep. Life throws us curveballs sometimes. However, we should not expect a very small and dense ball made out of our Sun! Why? Because the Sun is not heavy enough to be pressed into a black hole by its own gravity when its time comes. First of all, let us simplify how does any star …
How does one century replace another? In the mind of a man For me, the first man who said goodbye to the irrational beliefs and replaced them with precise scientific explanations was Johannes Kepler. ‘Why Kepler?’ you would probably exclaim. ‘What about Copernicus, Aristarchus of Samos, and a host of others?!’ Let us search the …
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6th century BC, Anatolia (present-day Turkey). The Medes and the Lydians have been fighting for 6 long years. One man wants to stop the war. But nobody pays attention to him. Then he goes to the king of the Medes and says: ‘If you don’t stop killing the Lydians, I will make the Sun black’. …
You liked this statement, didn’t you? It would be true if we were talking about it in the past. But wait, let us go from the very beginning. At first, there were just five planets: Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. Why? Because they can be seen with the naked eye. Pay special attention: Earth …
They have found something big. They have found something very big. Huge. Enormous. Unbelievable. Those dots in the W-letter are not dust particles, they are not stars. They are… galaxies! And the W-letter itself is called Hercules-Coronae Borealis Great Wall. If you haven’t heard about it yet, it’s okay, as it was discovered just in …