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A supernova explosion of a star in a galaxy can rival the brightness of all of the other stars in the galaxy for a short period of time.
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Answer provided by Dirk Terrell, Ph.D.
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... 400 pounds, it is easy to see which are the biggest. CanadArm 2, on the ISS, is still the largest in mass and length, at 3,530 pounds and 56 feet long. Of course, it didn ... either the Moon or Mars rovers. It is an important fact that the farther away a robot has to travel, the lighter it should be. The lighter something is, the cheaper it is to send into space. The smallest is the American ...
... feet—about the same as a large bedroom in a modern home, say, 15 feet by 15 feet, with a ten foot ceiling. But remember that equipment takes up a lot of this space, just ... , National Space Transportation System Reference, Volume 1 Systems and Facilities, June 1988.
This document is available on the Internet at: http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/technology/sts-newsref/stsreftoc.html sts ...
The Moon is about as old as the rest of the solar system— 4,560,000,000 years, based on radioactive decay dating of lunar rocks. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/tothemoon/origins2.html ... Matula, Ph.D. & Kenneth J. Murphy
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The risk of serious illness or injury is very low. The very low gravity levels eliminate the risk of injuries from falling, although you could still injure yourself from bumping into things in the spacecraft ... While very low gravity levels and the radiation of space can cause injury and illness, this will not happen if the space traveler only stays a few days to a few weeks.
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... for this The known or observable limit of what we can see within our Universe (due to the limiting factor of the speed of light) is about 13.7 billion light years That number is so big that I can't even come up with a comparison to make it meaningful.
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The surface temperature of the Sun is about 5800° Kelvin (K) or over 10,000° F. As one gets into the corona of the Sun, the temperatures can reach many millions of degrees K The Kelvin temperature ... as absolute 0, where there is virtually no molecular movement or energy expended by molecules. Today, the Celsius or Centigrade (C) scale references the Kelvin scale in such a way that 0° C ...
The deepest impact structure on the Moon, and possibly in the solar system, is the Aitken Basin on the far side of the Moon. This impact was so large that it punched through the crust of the Moon and exposed the relatively warmer, softer mantle material underneath. It is over ...
... out of the way. For smaller objects such as micro-meteoroids, we have layers of protection built into the skin of our modules that can stop them from penetrating the module skin. The skin is also equipped with a multi-layer insulation blanket that protects the modules from temperature ...
It is over 15,000,000° K or 27,000,000° F.
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