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Clouds and Climate Change
Posted on July 3, 2015 | 1 CommentIn the 1820s, French scientist Joseph Fourier was trying to understand how the Earth could maintain its observed average temperature. A simple calculation based on […] -
Thanksgiving entertainment: A Brief Encounter (of a comet with the Sun!)
Posted on December 1, 2013 | No CommentsOver the past few day, scientists around the world have been observing the comet ISON in order to study the fate of this 2 km […] -
Fireworks in the Solar system – produced by our own Sun.
Posted on November 10, 2013 | No CommentsAstronomers using the Hubble Space telescope this week reported the discovery of an asteroid emitting streams of dust in a spherical or ‘wheel-like’ pattern. Usually asteroids […] -
Hotter Than You Think
Posted on January 22, 2012 | No CommentsWhen you observe a solar eclipse, the main disk of the Sun is covered but its outer atmosphere is still visible. What you can see […]