I don’t wanna say it’s global warming, but it sure quacks like global warming.
What exactly is a photon? Definition, properties, facts
Let’s shine some light on the matter.
What are tsunamis and how they form
Most waves form due to winds or tides, but tsunamis have a different cause altogether.
The world’s first image of light as both a particle and a wave
We see light every day, and yet, we don’t truly understand it; it’s either a particle or a wave, or both at the same time… and we don’t really know why. Now, for the first time, researchers have captured an image of light behaving as a particle and a wave at the same time.
The biggest tsunami ever recorded was taller than 500 meters
On the night of July 9, 1958, an earthquake struck Fairweather Fault in the Alaska Panhandle. The result was that about 30.6 million cubic meters of rock were loosened, being thrown from a height of 914 meters down onto the water mass. Here’s a picture so that you can get a perspective on what that means: The impact generated a
We now know the birth place of the biggest guitar in the galaxy
In case you’re wondering, the biggest ‘guitar’ in our galaxy is in fact a pulsar that was nicknamed The Guitar Pulsar. It’s basically a stellar corpse that emits a beam of electromagnetic radiation that just shreds interstellar gas, creating a wake of hot hydrogen shaped just like a guitar. Little is known about these remnants, from any point of view.