Written by: Gautham Anne While watching boats travel by or a duck on a pond, one might wonder how the astonishing wake patterns emerge, such as the ones depicted in figure 1. One might also note that the wake patterns, regardless of whether it is
Written by: Colin Ward On August 8th, an experiment by the National Ignition Facility made an astounding discovery in nuclear fusion when they came closer than ever before to “igniting” a nuclear fusion reaction, the very same reaction that powers our sun. Ignition is a
Written by: Gloria Wang On February 18th, NASA’s Perseverance rover made its touchdown inside Jezero Crater on Mars. Millions of eyes were glued to the livestream as people waited in anticipation for the rover to land. As part of the Mars Exploration Program, the Mars
WRITTEN BY PHYLLIS SHEN Exoplanets are planets that exist outside of our Solar System that orbit other stars. Over 4,000 exoplanets have been observed by space telescopes thus far. Recently, many more exoplanets have been discovered and classified by Dr. Markus Mugrauer, an astrophysicist at
Written by alexander zhang Greek philosopher Zeno of Elea once had an interesting thought (as philosophers do): if an arrow in flight is examined at an instant in time, the arrow appears to be motionless. However, if the arrow is motionless at every instant in
WRITTEN BY Phyllis ShEn For a long time, black holes have been known to influence the development and growth of objects in the universe, including the formation of stars within galaxies (Somerville and Davé). Galaxies are clusters of stars held together by gravity, and the