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3 days ago · The first human to go into space, Yuri Gagarin, was launched, again by the Soviet Union, for a one-orbit journey around Earth on April 12, 1961. Within 10 years of that first human flight, American astronauts walked on the surface of the Moon.
This lesson completes the content for Earth and space science. We look at the phosphorus cycle by completing some text reading and questions. We also summarise this in a powerpoint presentation.
- Astronomers shine light on a black hole. Black holes are ubiquitous in our universe. We have seen them gravitationally act on objects that come too close, and we have charted the swirls of matter that fall into them.
- FRB science starts really popping off. Since fast radio bursts (FRBs) flashed onto the scene in 2007, these powerful, milliseconds-long blips of radio energy have intrigued astronomers.
- New Horizons flies by Ultima Thule. Astronomy kicked off 2019 in high gear: At 12:33 A.M. EST on January 1, New Horizons made its closest approach to 2014 MU69, nicknamed Ultima Thule.
- Hayabusa2 plays tag with asteroid Ryugu. In June 2018, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s (JAXA) Hayabusa2 spacecraft began its exploration of the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu.
Question 1. Why did Think-Tank wish to contact the space probe? Answer: Think-Tank wanted to contact the probe to find out what the crew of the probe had observed about Earth. Question 2. What difficulty do the crew of the space probe face on Earth? Answer: The space probe lands in a public library.
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However, with the telescopes available in earlier centuries, galaxies looked like small fuzzy patches of light that were difficult to distinguish from the star clusters and gas-and-dust clouds that are part of our own Galaxy.