I dedicate one week of every month’s to post about questions taken from Quora. Here goes this month’s bunch. Where exactly is our solar system located? If you examine our Milky Way graphical upper view, it sort of looks like an octopus’s top view but with spiral shaped arms. These arms illuminate interstellar dust and gas. Each arm, named as Perseus Arm, Sagittarius Arm, Centaurus Arm and Cygnus Arm and our solar system lies in the Orion Spur which is a minor arm. It is located 26,000 light years from the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. Here is NASA’s pictorial view: What happens if the Sun turns into a…
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Astronomy Q&A
So I was wondering what to different for my blog and it hit me. This one. I am going to pick 5 astronomy related questions from Quora and answer them! Serious ones and sometimes funny ones. (Maybe in the future I will take questions from the public and answer five out of them.) And it doesn’t end there. Q&A is going to happen twice in a month. One week about Astronomy and one week about Life Advices/Interesting Facts. So this week’s picked up questions: What would happen to your naked arm in the vacuum of outer space? Answer: Arms or any part of the body, you are going…
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Solar Eclipse is two days away – What you should know?
With Solar Eclipse being couple of days away, let’s catch on up what it is, where is visible and how can others (where it’s not visible) witness this event. Going back to school for those who already know, Solar Eclipse is a celestial event occurs when a New Moon passes between the Sun and the Earth, blocking the Sun’s rays completely or partially depending on the type of eclipse. Speaking of which there are four types of solar eclipses. Thanks to the Wikipedia, here are the list and its explanation. A total eclipse occurs when the dark silhouette of the Moon completely obscures(conceals) the intensely bright light of…