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...
Moneth Claire Corpuz -- Deer Valley High School, Antioch, CA, USA
“The sky is fake.”
Meina recalled the words of a delusional passerby near the Academy....
We investigate star formation in the Sc(s) II-III galaxy M33 by analyzing eight prominent HII regions using multi-wavelength data from the Spitzer Space Telescope and optical imagery. Results indicate that dust emission is a compact tracer of high-mass star formation, while PAH and H-alpha emissions decline more slowly with galactocentric radius.
Just like the dust that stubbornly besmirches your computer monitor, bookcase, and ancestral credenza, cosmic dust is now recognized to have a multiplicity of origins. For decades, astronomers thought that aging red giant stars produced most of the dust responsible for obscuring and reddening our views of nebulae and more distant stars ...
There are definite interrelations between the spacings of the planets – they are much more than giant rocks randomly flying through space. There is order and a scheme, a cosmic dance of the planets as some romantics like to say.
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.
Are we alone or do we share our solar system and galaxy with other forms of life? And how widespread are advanced civilizations with whom we could communicate? Right now we don’t have answers to these profound questions. But scientists are in hot pursuit...
An astronomical year for me ….When I was in the third grade I suddenly became very interested in everything astronomical – especially the planets of our local solar system. That same year we studied the Solar System in public school, and that only added to my excitement over the topic. I began badgering my parents to buy me a telescope...
