This is an interesting question, because most of the time when we talk about the lifetime of a star, we mean the part before the creation of a white dwarf or a neutron star.  Typically, a star has a “lifetime”…Read the full article on Forbes!Have your own question? Feel free to ask! Or submit your questions via the sidebar, Facebook, or twitter.Sign up for the mailing list for updates & news straight to your inbox!

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“Why does the Moon rise 30 to 70 mins later each day than the previous day?”The Moon does indeed rise on average 50 minutes later each day in our skies, which may come as a surprisingly large daily change, particularly if you’re used to the much more gradual changes of sunrise…Read the full article on Forbes!Have your own question? Feel free to ask! Or submit your questions via the sidebar, Facebook, or twitter.Sign up for the mailing list for updates…

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“Why are Earth and Venus called twins?” The Earth and Venus do often get called planetary twins, and this is largely because they are very close to being the same mass. Both the Earth and Venus are rocky…Read the full article on Forbes!Have your own question? Feel free to ask! Or submit your questions via the sidebar, Facebook, or twitter.Sign up for the mailing list for updates & news straight to your inbox!

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“I follow all kinds of information about space and the stars. My brother has only recently started paying attention to these issues, but has been reading some naysayer websites. Because of this, he says he has doubts about the ‘truth’ of the space shuttle, the flight to the moon and other missions, as some claim that they would be impossible because of the heated layers of atmosphere around the earth, which would destroy them–the Van…

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“If the Oort Cloud is three light years away from our Sun, then it’s closer to Alpha Centauri than our Sun, right? So how can it stay around our Sun if the mass of Alpha Centauri is 1.1 times the mass of our Sun - wouldn’t the gravity of Alpha Centauri rip it away?”The Oort cloud is an interesting feature of our solar system; a nebulous, spherical cloud of comets which marks the very outer…

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“Is it possible that space-time is curved in such a way that one (or many) of the galaxies we see in telescopes is actually our own Milky Way a few billion years earlier?”It is mathematically possible for a universe to be shaped this way, but not our Universe. Our Universe is as close to…Read the full article on Forbes!Have your own question? Feel free to ask! Or submit your questions via the sidebar, Facebook, or twitter.Sign up for the…

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“Was dark matter created during the Big Bang?”Our current understanding of the event dubbed the Big Bang implies that all matter, and all energy, appeared in our Universe at that moment. Ever since then, the Universe has been changing…Read the full article on Forbes!Have your own question? Feel free to ask! Or submit your questions via the sidebar, Facebook, or twitter.Sign up for the mailing list for updates & news straight to your inbox!

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“If dark energy is pushing our Galaxy in a known and straight line, then where is it pushing us to? What kind of force is driving the dark energy and where is it taking us to? Or is there a force that is drawing dark energy to it, and we are just trapped within it?”Dark energy isn’t pushing our Galaxy in a specific direction; it’s responsible for the expansion of the space between all objects…

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“If black holes are in the centers of galaxies, can the black hole die if it does not suck anything?”Black holes are indeed at the centers of every large galaxy like our own Milky Way, and our Milky Way’s black hole is a good example of ‘normal’ black hole behavior, at least for galaxies living near us…Read the full article on Forbes!Have your own question? Feel free to ask! Or submit your questions via the sidebar, Facebook, or…

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