Recent content by Ikon Rahu

In an article on phys.org [http://phys.org/news/2015-06-red-dwarf-planet-hydrogen-massive.html] , it states that the exoplanet GJ 436b is 33x closer to its parent star than the Earth is to our sun. It also states that the exoplanet is less than 2 million miles away from the star. If I assume an...

I am curious about the expanding universe - that is, that the space itself is expanding. Why can't we notice the effects of an expanding universe here in our own solar system? Why doesn't space expand here around us? Wouldn't this result in more space between our molecules and so on until we...