Tag: planetary

Those of us who express and sign the content of this document are descendants of the first peoples and nations that creation has left under the laws of nature to take care of the earth, which is the home of humanity. We are the historical guardians of life that manifests in water, plants, fauna, for...

It was only a little over 30 years ago, in the early 1990s, that humanity detected our first planets in orbit around stars other than the Sun: the exoplanets. The earliest ones discovered were a bit of a surprise: they were all massive, in tight orbits around their parent stars, and extremely hot: a...

Astronomers have several theories on why Earth has a moon, although one is much more widely accepted than the others. The first is known as the fission theory, which states that the Moon may be a piece of Earth that broke off during its formation due to speedy rotation. Similarly, another theory cal...

German mathematician Johannes Kepler and his journey to finding the laws that govern modern-day understanding of planetary motion began with Kepler’s banishment from Graz, Austria in the early 17th century due to religious and political conflicts. Kepler would find an opportunity to work with ...

For the intrepid souls preparing to voyage among the stars and the inquisitive minds dedicated to unraveling the mysteries of the cosmos, the quest to comprehend the potential habitability of distant worlds propels us into a realm where science converges with artistic interpretation. The Quantum ...

Save for its name, Uranus isn’t really the most memorable planet out there. Being far enough away from Earth that any amateur observer would barely be able to make out coherent details of its surface, let alone the very faint bands and storms that any self-respecting gas giant would have. As a...

In both human and planetary births, the parent’s context is critical to the health and survival of the offspring. For example, if our sun was born in a stellar nursery with a nearby supergiant star, fierce stellar winds from such a big hot star would have driven away the dust and gas, the raw ...

Adriana Ocampo was born on January 5, 1955 in Barranquilla, Colombia and was later raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She is one of three daughters of Victor Alberto Ocampo, an engineer, and Teresa Uria de Ocampo, a marine biologist. Her parents gave their utmost support to fulfill her desires to st...

The first successful methods for finding exoplanets involved measuring the light from a parent star very exquisitely. If there are planets orbiting the star in question, the star isn’t only going to gravitationally pull on that planet, but the planet will gravitationally pull on the star, caus...

Astronomers have several theories on why Earth has a moon, although one is much more widely accepted than the others. The first is known as the fission theory, which states that the Moon may be a piece of Earth that broke off during its formation due to speedy rotation. Similarly, another theory cal...