In the depths of the dark cloud of dust and molecular gas of M17, the stars continue to form. Visible in this representative M17 color photograph taken by the New Technology Telescope are dark clouds that appear as empty in infrared light. The darkness of these molecular clouds results from the light of the background stars that is absorbed by the thin carbon-based dust.
The glaciers The great masses of ice that cover the planet's poles and the high areas of the world's great mountain ranges are called glaciers, although they are of two different types. Glaciers are the remains of the great ice cover that extended over a good part of the Earth's high latitudes during the last quaternary glaciations.
When speaking about energy transport, the textbook, physics-101 always lists three possibilities: radiation convection conduction Now when studying radiation transport in (stellar) atmospheres an…
Isaac Newton and the law of universal gravitation Gravitation is the force of mutual attraction that bodies experience due to having a certain mass. The existence of this force was established by the English mathematician and physicist Isaac Newton in the seventeenth century. In addition, this brilliant scientist developed for its formulation the so-called fluxion calculation (what is now known as integral calculus).
I watch the discovery science channel a lot & enjoy the material about space, stars, planets, etc. In one episode the narrator states our Sun will one day become a white dwarf star. The size…
If the planet and star in question are very similar to the Earth and the Sun, how can I calculate the planet's surface temperature by knowing the distance from the star? This question was originally