The night sky is dark
Moreover, since the Copernicansystem no longer requires that the stars be attached to a rotating celestialsphere, the stars can be…
Moreover, since the Copernicansystem no longer requires that the stars be attached to a rotating celestialsphere, the stars can be…
However, the cosmological model of Copernicus requirdistance to stars be very much larger than an astronomical unit; otherwise,the…
Why should it be paradoxical that the night sky is dark? Most of ussimply take for granted the fact that daytime is bright and nig…
after theastronomer Heinrich Olbers, who wrote a scientific paper on the subject inthe year 1826. As it happens, Olbers was not t…
Step outside on a clear, moonless night, far from city lights, and look upward.You will see a dark sky, with roughly two thousand …
The concentration of the invisible gas water vapor (H 2 O), however, varies greatly from place to place, and from time to time. Cl…
At the surface, there is a balance between destruction (output) and production (input) of these gases. For example, nitrogen is re…
the various gases present in a volume of air near the earths surface. Notice that nitrogen (N 2 ) occupies about 78 percent and ox…
The earth without an atmosphere would have no lakes or oceans. There would be no sounds, no clouds, no red sunsets. The beautiful …
Our atmosphere is a delicate life-giving blanket of air that surrounds the fragile earth. In one way or an-other, it infl uences …