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Awarenergy @awarenergy.bsky.social · 23h

In a few billion years, when the Sun has used up all its hydrogen, it will expand to become a red giant, reaching out as far as Earth’s orbit, after which it will collapse to become a white dwarf. Life on Earth has an expiration date

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Awarenergy @awarenergy.bsky.social · 23h

Nobody has ever noticed a place except at a time, or a time except at a place. Space and time are deeply interconnected and are treated as different aspects of a single structure called spacetime

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Awarenergy @awarenergy.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The Milky Way’s stars have approximately 50 billion solar masses. The Milky Way’s dark-matter halo is about 970 billion solar masses. So roughly 90% of the Milky Way's mass is dark matter

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Awarenergy @awarenergy.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

During the inflation period, the Universe expanded from the size of an electron to the size of a golf ball in 10ˉ³² seconds. Predictions linked to this exponential expansion of space in the early Universe have been confirmed experimentally

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Awarenergy @awarenergy.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

c is a fundamental constant that connects space and time. It allows us to express time in units of distance (m) and distance in units of time (s)

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Awarenergy @awarenergy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

General Relativity tells us that the Universe has a finite past. When we extrapolate the equations backwards, spacetime reaches a boundary, the Big Bang, where our laws of physics break down. Whether that boundary was literally the beginning of time is still an open question

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Awarenergy @awarenergy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Saturn is less dense than water. It has an average density of approximately 0.69 grams per cubic centimetre. Water has a density of 1 gram per cubic centimetre

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Awarenergy @awarenergy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

NASA’s New Horizons space probe took 9 and a half years to reach Pluto, traveling a 58 thousand km/h, at that speed, it would take it 76 thousand years to get to Proxima Centauri, the nearest star to us

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Awarenergy @awarenergy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The Universe is 13.8 billion years old, but the diameter of the observable universe is 93 billion light-years. This is because the Universe is expanding (space-time is being created) faster than the speed of light, which is not incompatible with Einstein’s Special Relativity

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Awarenergy @awarenergy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Paul Dirac, a British theoretical physicist, accidentally predicted the existence of antimatter in 1928 as he was trying to work out how to reconcile quantum physics with special relativity. The first antimatter particle, the positron, was discovered in 1932

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Awarenergy @awarenergy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Jupiter's Great Red Spot is an enormous atmospheric storm that has been observed for at least 190 years. Winds can reach approximately 400 km/h. At its historical maximum, it was large enough to contain several Earths side by side

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Awarenergy @awarenergy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Our Sun is 109 times wider than the Earth, and has a volume 1.3 million times that of our planet

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Awarenergy @awarenergy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Andromeda has approximately twice the Milky Way's stellar mass

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Awarenergy @awarenergy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Cepheid variable stars change their brightness with a well-defined period that is directly proportional to their luminosity, a property that makes these giant stars a useful tool to measure galactic and extragalactic distances

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Awarenergy @awarenergy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The uncertainty in a particle’s position multiplied by the uncertainty in its momentum can never be smaller than a constant, which means that nature does not allow a particle to have both an exactly defined position and an exactly defined momentum at the same time

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Awarenergy @awarenergy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Space and time are not directly observable entities. We see objects, events, and changes, and we measure the relationships between them. Space is inferred from the relative positions and distances between things; time is inferred from the ordering and rates of change of events

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Awarenergy @awarenergy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter contains around 2 million asteroids bigger than 1 km in diameter

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Awarenergy @awarenergy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The first atoms in the Universe were formed when the Universe was 380,000 years old and about 1,100 times smaller than the size of the present observable Universe

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Awarenergy @awarenergy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Our Solar System is orbiting the centre of the Milky Way at an average speed of 828,000 km/h. At that speed, an object would circumnavigate the Earth's equator in 2 minutes and 54 seconds

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Awarenergy @awarenergy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Neptune’s largest moon, Triton, is about 140 times more massive than all of Neptune's other 13 known moons combined. It contains roughly 99.3% of the total mass of Neptune's moons

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Awarenergy @awarenergy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Gravity is the only fundamental force that operates at infinite range and affects all things with mass irrespective of size, shape, or electric charge. We know what it does, but we are not sure what it is

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Awarenergy @awarenergy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The diameter of the Milky Way is approximately 100 thousand light-years, or about 25 thousand times the distance between the Sun and Proxima Centauri, the nearest star to us

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Awarenergy @awarenergy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The Sun's magnetic poles reverse polarity approximately every 11 years

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Awarenergy @awarenergy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The term “Big Bang” to describe the origin of the Universe was coined by English astronomer Fred Hoyle on a BBC radio program in 1949

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Awarenergy @awarenergy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Saturn’s largest moon Titan, and the second largest in our Solar System, is the most distant object on which a spacecraft has landed: Huygens in 2005, built and operated by the European Space Agency

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Awarenergy @awarenergy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

In the Standard Model, fundamental particles are treated as point-like: they don't have a known physical radius, hard surface, or size

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Awarenergy @awarenergy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

A spacecraft travelling from Earth at 50,000 km/h would take 8 hours to get to the Moon, 65 days to Mars, 13 years to Pluto, and 94,000 years to the closest star, Proxima Centauri

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Awarenergy @awarenergy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

If an astronomical body is emitting or reflecting light that we can observe, we can determine how fast it is moving toward or away from us by comparing where the spectral lines of its constituent elements should be when the source is at rest with where we actually observe them

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Awarenergy @awarenergy.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The Trifid Nebula is a star-forming region in the Milky Way. The main cloud of gas in its central region is about 8 light-years across, and the jets protruding from the head of the cloud are about 0.75 light-years long, or 48 thousand times the distance between Earth and the Sun

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Awarenergy @awarenergy.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Nuclear fusion in the Sun produces only electron neutrinos, but on the way to the Earth, they can change their type to become muon or tau neutrinos in a quantum mechanical process called neutrino oscillations, which was predicted in 1957 and experimentally confirmed in 2001

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Awarenergy @awarenergy.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The winds on Neptune blow mostly in a retrograde direction, opposite the planet's rotation, reaching supersonic speeds of up to 2200 km/h

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Awarenergy @awarenergy.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The Sun is about 26,000–27,000 light-years from the galactic centre. It travels around the centre at roughly 230 km/s (about 830,000 km/h). One complete orbit takes approximately 225–250 million years

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Awarenergy @awarenergy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

In billions of years, when our Sun runs out of Hydrogen to fuse and becomes a red giant engulfing Earth and killing all life on our planet, perhaps Saturn’s largest moon Titan, might be warm enough to sustain life

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Awarenergy @awarenergy.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Due to the accelerating expansion of the Universe, the edge of the observable Universe is about 47 billion light-years away from us, even though the age of the universe is only 13.8 billion years

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Awarenergy @awarenergy.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The dark-matter halo that our galaxy is embedded in is believed to contain several times more mass than all the ordinary matter in the Milky Way combined

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Awarenergy @awarenergy.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Due to the tidal interaction between the Earth and the Moon, the Moon is moving away from the Earth at a rate of about 4 centimetres per year, which means that in a few hundred million years, the Moon will be too small in the sky for total solar eclipses to be possible

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Awarenergy @awarenergy.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The spacetime interval between two events is the same for all inertial observers. Space and time are observer-dependent, but spacetime has an observer-independent geometry

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Awarenergy @awarenergy.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Saturn has 293 known moons, many more than any other planet in our Solar System

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Awarenergy @awarenergy.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The Cosmic Microwave Background is the oldest light we can still observe from Earth, a visible surface surrounding us, beyond which light from the early universe cannot reach us directly. It was emitted when the Universe was just 380,000 years old

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Awarenergy @awarenergy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Our Sun fuses hydrogen into helium, releasing lots of energy via two different thermonuclear pathways: 99% via the proton–proton chain, and 1% via the CNO cycle (carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen). The bigger and hotter a star, the more prominent the CNO cycle becomes

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Awarenergy @awarenergy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Parker Solar Probe, the fastest spacecraft ever built, reaching 190 km/s at its maximum speed, would take around 6,700 years to travel to Proxima Centauri, the nearest star

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Awarenergy @awarenergy.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

The weak nuclear force, one of the 4 fundamental forces, is responsible for the radioactive decay of atoms. Its range is limited to subatomic distances, and it only acts on particles with left-handed spin and on right-handed antiparticles

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Awarenergy @awarenergy.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Neutrinos are the most abundant subatomic particles with mass in the universe, whereas the massless photons are the most plentiful in absolute terms

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Awarenergy @awarenergy.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The Milky Way contains roughly 100–400 billion stars. Its present star-formation rate is relatively modest, just 1 or 2 stars per year

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Awarenergy @awarenergy.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Time dilation and length contraction arise because space and time are intertwined into spacetime, and all inertial observers must measure the same speed of light

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Awarenergy @awarenergy.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Saturn’s largest moon Titan, the second largest in our Solar System, is larger than planet Mercury and more than 3 times bigger in volume than our Moon

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Awarenergy @awarenergy.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Of all the energy produced by the Sun, only 0.000000045%, or 1 part in 10 billion, makes it to the surface of Earth, providing the power source for all life on our planet

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Awarenergy @awarenergy.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Io is the densest known moon in the Solar System, with an average density of about 3.53 g/cm³

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Awarenergy @awarenergy.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

The life expectancy of stars ranges anywhere from 10 million years for the largest stars, to 10 billion years for medium-sized stars like our Sun, to trillions of years for the smallest stars

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Awarenergy @awarenergy.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

The Higgs mechanism explained why many elementary particles have mass. The mystery was theoretically resolved in the 1960s, with experimental confirmation in 2012

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