Daily Archives: June 13, 2008

Sunspot

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An unusually active sunspot region is now crossing the Sun. The region, numbered 875, is larger than the Earth and has produced several solar flares over the past week. It should take a few more days for Sunspot 875 to … Continue reading →

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Visit to Sun

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For more than 400 years, astronomers have studied the sun from afar. Now NASA has decided to go there. “We are going to visit a living, breathing star for the first time,” says program scientist Lika Guhathakurta of NASA Headquarters. … Continue reading →

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Gravitation and Gravity

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The terms gravity and gravitation are often used to explain the same thing, but there is a definite difference between the two. Gravitation is the attractive force existing between any two objects that have mass. The force of gravitation pulls … Continue reading →

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