Weather and climate Unlike geological processes, which occur slowly, the Earth's atmosphere is constantly transformed, sometimes even in a matter of minutes. These changes, the weather in each moment, directly affect our health and well-being. It is very logical that we have developed meteorology.
So I've been having fun with trying to determine where the perihelia of different planets are (using JPL Horizons). And by the time I got to Saturn, something weird started happening. I've noticed…
Supposing a planet is made entirely of gas, is it possible for the planet to become tidally locked with the star it orbits? I know when a terrestrial planet orbits a star in a different amount of…
How a sea forms Generally, the term sea refers to a mass of salt water that covers a relatively large area of the earth's surface. When we are at the edge of a sea, we cannot help wondering what has happened on the planet so that so much water is accumulated before us.
So I know that the Eddington luminosity is given by: $L_{Eddington} = 4pi GMc/kappa$. I want to calculate this luminosity for a plasma of purely ionized helium, as well as for an electron-posi…
