You know, the indications there are a lot of those stars have planets, maybe have them built since planets you know, being like kittens, you know, just dig one, you get a couple. They are probably on the order of the million and million planets out t...
One type of giant planet orbits very close to its star, we call them hot Jupiters because these Jupiter-like planets are so close that they are blowtorched by the intense heat from the star. The other sort of planet we have found is also bizarre. Wev...
Venus is closer to the Sun, Mars is farther from the Sun. And there is a zone in between, the blazing hot furnace Venus, the frigid Mars. That zone in between we call a habitable zone and the earth lies smack in that thing where water would be in liq...
A new galaxy is formed where, instead of the discs that the original galaxies have, where all the stars are going around more or less on a plane. Instead the stars are going every which way just like the elliptical galaxies that we see. And so we are...
Our galaxy is rushing toward the great galaxy Andromeda, they are rushing toward each other. And they are going to encounter each other in a couple billion years. Abraham and his colleagues decide to try to simulate this clash of the Titans. This was...