More than fifty years ago, Apollo 15 photographed something unusual on the far side of the Moon. In a panoramic photograph taken from lunar orbit, two bright, sharply defined objects stood out from the otherwise subdued landscape on the floor of a crater called Paracelsus C.
Today we can take a much closer look.
Monica Tavarez Frias -- Saint Patrick School of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Introduction
What if the key to time travel isn’t hidden within the depths of...
Martina Guja Zagonel – Liceo Scientifico Bonaventura Cavalieri, Verbania, Italy
Introduction
With recent advancements and ongoing progress in Artificial Intelligence (AI), it's conceivable that in the...
Sebastian Sousa -- St. Patrick’s School of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Introduction
Have you ever experienced an eerie coincidence? Thinking of someone just as they call...
Milena Niemczyk -- 1st Nicolaus Copernicus Secondary School, Bielsko-Biata, Poland
Introduction
Our eyes have always been directed towards the night sky. The inventions of the telescope and...
Marcus Mount -- Deer Valley High School, Antioch, CA, USA
When we think about it, space exploration is arguably humanity’s most exciting and monumental work. We...
Galactic ecosystems encompass the varied complexes of inter-relating stellar, nebular, and other matter that are actively forming new stars. These include molecular clouds, cloud cores, protostellar and protoplanetary systems, HII regions and starbursts.
It is not hyperbole to state that galactic ecosystems have spawned pretty much everything that we hold dear – including ourselves. These nebular nurseries have incubated all the stars, planetary systems, and many of the complex molecules known to humanity.
More than fifty years ago, Apollo 15 photographed something unusual on the far side of the Moon. In a panoramic photograph taken from lunar orbit, two bright, sharply defined objects stood out from the otherwise subdued landscape on the floor of a crater called Paracelsus C.
Today we can take a much closer look.
It is tempting to say that any well-educated person should know what it takes to be scientifically literate. But what does scientific literacy really involve? Given that scientific literacy is a key goal of most science education standards and frameworks, considerable ink has been dedicated to utilizing the term in pedagogical papers.