The second planet from the Sun, Venus is often called Earth’s “sister planet” because of their similar size and mass. But the similarities end there, Venus is the hottest planet in our solar system, with surface temperatures around 464°C (867°F) – hot enough to melt lead. This extreme heat comes from a runaway greenhouse effect caused by its thick atmosphere, which is about 96% carbon dioxide.
Physical Properties, Atmosphere, Rings, and Moons Uranus is one of the most fascinating environments in our Solar System, full of dark mysteries, intrigue, and undoubtedly novel vacuum physics that we will learn about as we send probes and explore the outer regions of our Solar System. The most interesting aspects of Uranus are its retrograde … Read more
Neptune is a fascinating system, continually forging the outer edges of our solar system. The gas giant’s orbit is littered with debris, dust and objects that travel through the Oort Cloud and into the Kuiper Belt and get caught in the gravity of the huge frozen gas giant. With a day lasting about 16 hours, … Read more
I always like to learn about new concept and ideas, so this morning I woke up and just started to study frame dragging and relativistic effects on stars. I’ve been spending a lot of time with physics lately and have done a full Sagittarius A calculation, which turned out to be a fun way to … Read more
Presenting Elliot’s Hydrogen Fusion Simulator, V1.0.0 It is fairly well accepted that the future of energy will be nuclear. The concept of a Dyson Sphere was first developed by Olaf Stapledon in his science fiction novel Star Maker (1937). The idea was further developed by the physicist Freeman Dyson in his 1960 paper “Search for Artificial Stellar Sources of Infrared Radiation“. … Read more