Recent content by GKDAIR

I've often heard there's no solid ground in the gas giants, but do we know this for a fact or are we just guessing based off the math?

Tonight was an amazing night for stargazing so I drove about 10 minutes to a nice countryside road with barely any lights. It was really dark, and you could see a faint glow of the milky way. I had some apps to help me locate various galaxies and etc. and I wanted to see Andromeda but I...

Ah, that's what I figured. Thanks for clearing that up.

Light just now reaching us from Andromeda Galaxy was created literally millions of years ago, around 2.5 to be in the ballpark. When you look at a star, you're literally looking at the past. That means tonight, when we look up, The light that let's us see Andromeda was created when the...

So, not going to lie I'm kinda scared about majoring in physics, I'm sure it will be very tough. I plan on majoring in physics and then going for astrophysics while getting my doctorate. After spending all of this time in school i'll have jobs right? I mean I wouldn't think someone with a...

First off, I have this huge bug with math. When I understand it the problems take me a few seconds to do, when I don't, its like world war 3. So why did I pick physics of all things? Because I love space, I would love nothing more then to study the planets. But to do this it will require a...

I've always been fascinated with space. The plants, galaxies, stars etc. However, I have a huge phobia of math, I'm terrified of it. When I understand it my homework takes less than 30 minutes (Currently in Intermediate Algebra, the next course is College Algebra) not sure what the difference...