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WHAT IS TIME REALLY?
What is time? It feels like something simple we use every day, but when you really think about it, it becomes much more mysterious. Does time have a beginning? Does it flow the same everywhere? And where is it actually… Continue reading
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Inside Griffith Observatory
This Friday night, I visited Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles, and it was an amazing experience. Even without observing the night sky directly, the visit was full of interesting science and technology. One of the highlights was the observatory’s historic… Continue reading
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BOOK REVIEW: Carlo Rovelli’s The Order of Time
What is time really? Is it something that always moves forward the same way for everyone? In The Order of Time, Carlo Rovelli shows that time is much more complicated and surprising than it seems. At the beginning, Rovelli explains… Continue reading
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A Star Disappears: New Black Hole Insights from the Simons Foundation’s Flatiron Institute
What if a massive star simply vanished? Not in a brilliant supernova explosion.Not in a cosmic blaze of glory.But quietly. Astronomers have just witnessed exactly that. A team led by Kishalay De at the Simons Foundation’s Flatiron Institute discovered that… Continue reading
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When the Lights Go Out: A Timeline to the End of the Universe
When we look up at the night sky, it feels eternal. The stars seem steady and permanent, as if they have always been there and always will be. But cosmology tells a very different story. Scientists have outlined a possible… Continue reading
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What If Alien Life Doesn’t Look Like Life?
When scientists search for life beyond Earth, they usually look for things that resemble life here. For example, oxygen in a planet’s atmosphere is exciting because plants on Earth produce oxygen. Liquid water is important because all known life depends… Continue reading
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Astronomy Night Out: Seeing the Universe Through My Own Lens
On February 10, I attended Astronomy Night Out at the Chabot Space and Science Center, an evening dedicated to exploring astronomy through astrophotography. After dinner, we experienced a planetarium presentation titled Our Place in the Universe, which illustrated Earth’s position… Continue reading
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Breakthroughs of 2025: Astrobiology: Searching for Life on Mars
Did NASA’s Perseverance Rover Discover Signs of Ancient Life on Mars? In 2025, one of the most exciting moments in astrobiology came from NASA’s Perseverance rover as it continued exploring Mars. While studying Jezero Crater, a region that once contained… Continue reading
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Breakthroughs of 2025: Astronomy: Strange Red Dots in Deep Space
JWST’s Little Red Dots and the Mystery of QSO1 One of the most exciting breakthroughs in astronomy in 2025 came from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and a mysterious population of objects known as Little Red Dots. At first… Continue reading
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Capturing the Orion Nebula (M42): A Stellar Nursery Close to Home
This Thanksgiving, I used my Celestron Origin Mark II home observatory system to photograph one of the most beautiful objects in the winter sky, the Orion Nebula. The image reveals the bright, glowing core of M42, a region filled with… Continue reading
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