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Classifying Galaxies
Nobody knows how many galaxies there are in the Universe, but astronomers talk in the hundreds of billions, only a tiny fraction of which have been observed from Earth. Between 2000 and 2008, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey produced images of around a million galaxies, and the Hubble Space Telescope has continued to add to that number.
By John Welford5 years ago in FYI
How Astrophysics Benefits Technology and Industries?
The Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA) is an observatory turned into an institute of learning for astronomy, astrophysics, and related physics. It has a huge budget to spend, and it produces great astrophysicists Harish Chandra (1923-1983) and Sandip Chakrabarti (1958).
By ISTI Portal5 years ago in FYI
Cheap or Free
There’s a certain sort of smell that certain spaces hold that I’ve come to associate with treasure. It’s a smell of disuse and age that lingers long after an item is reclaimed to its use. Chaos envelops the walls and isles of my favourite places. Don’t enter such spaces with a goal in mind or a tight schedule, you’ll quickly find yourself lost.
By Guillermo Jatzek5 years ago in FYI
The 5 richest men in the world and how they got there.
The average working American is thankful for a yearly salary of 5 figures annually. The richest among us within our society however are billionaires which is a financial status that most of us cannot even consider attaining. One of the most famous billionaires of all time was Howard Hughes who began making his fortune at the age of 18 through his father's oil drilling business. His earnings increased thanks to Hughes Aircraft Company, property in Los Vegas Nevada, RKO Pictures Corporation, and a controlling interest in Trans World Airlines.
By Cheryl E Preston5 years ago in FYI
Wampus Cat Origins
The wampus cat is an intriguing cryptid feline found in North American folklore particularly within the Appalachian Mountains and surrounding regions. It has multiple origin stories and serves as a unique mascot to a very small number of educational institutes such as Conway High in Arkansas. It may have even been involved in a secret government project gone awry in Alabama during World War II.
By Jake Thomas5 years ago in FYI
'I think this would be a good time for a beer!'
On a warm spring day, a hearse pulled from the small town of Warm Springs, GA, while the mournful sounds of an accordion played Dvorak's Going Home. A military escort led the vehicle down the roadway lined with soldiers as they watched in silence as the American flag-draped coffin was taken to the rail station. The train pulled out in the early morning, the windows of the last car of the train were down so that the thousands of people who gathered at the train tracks could watch the final time that Franklin D. Roosevelt would leave Georgia and head to Washington DC.
By Rose Loren Geer-Robbins5 years ago in FYI
Why Missing A Year Of School Isn’t The End Of The World?
It has been a turbulent year for the pupils of this country. This time last year, the experience of a national lockdown was still novel and exciting. Now, the children of Britain are wearily exiting their third lockdown, having spent a year yo-yoing in and out of school. The British government say that missing a whole year of education could be catastrophic for their educational development, but are they correct? There are many examples of famous people who have achieved massively in life while missing out on their education, but I will focus on just one.
By Niall James Bradley5 years ago in FYI
Flat Earthers: it’s not funny anymore
I remember in the early days of the Flat Earth internet frenzy, people were still wondering if this is a joke that some trolls perhaps have taken too far. To our horror today, we have discovered that it wasn’t trolls after all. These are people that actually believe that the Earth is flat, they have books, conferences, youtube channels, wikis, facebook pages and whole communities discussing this. These are people that have thrown away all scientific progress in the past 2 Millenia. They have decided to carry the mental burden of believing that Gravity is a lie, that light traveling in straight lines is a lie, that Galilean relativity is a lie. And that every government, pilot, ship captain, geologian, astronomer is in on the conspiracy. And they would rather accept this (and a much longer list) than to accept the Earth’s true shape.
By Abdulrahman Sahmoud5 years ago in FYI
Benjamin Franklin’s 13 Life Virtues
Defining himself as "The youngest Son of the youngest Son for five Generations back," Benjamin Franklin was born in 1706 in Boston, Massachusetts. Throughout his life, Franklin would be known as a writer, printer, political philosopher, politician, Freemason, postmaster, scientist, inventor, humorist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat.
By Iulian Ionescu5 years ago in FYI
A Revised History Of Old Junk
I have a secret. For generations, the women in my family have shared a strange and mystical gift; an ancient power so rare and so magical that we scarcely ever speak about it in polite company. Through out the ages this gift has proved to be both a blessing and a burden, and it is often gravely misunderstood by our loved ones.
By Jessica Conaway5 years ago in FYI
