Murdin Paul

We have the impression that the solar system is perfectly regular like a clock, or a planetarium instrument. On a short timescale it is. But, seen in a longer perspective, the planets, and their satellites, have exciting lives, full of events - for example, did you know that Saturn's moon, Titan, boasts lakes which contain liquid methane surrounded...

Planety, podobnie jak ludzie, mają swoją burzliwą historię, a ich losy obfitują w wiele dramatycznych wydarzeń i zwrotów akcji.  Wydaje się nam, że Układ Słoneczny działa z doskonałą regularnością, jak zegarek albo instrumenty w Planetarium. W krótkiej skali czasowej rzeczywiście tak jest. Ale kiedy wydłużymy perspektywę, zobaczymy, że planety...

How did our universe come to exist? Why do stars shine? Is there life beyond the Earth? For millennia, humans have looked to the celestial sphere to explain the cosmos, first recording the movements of the Moon 25,000 years ago. Since the Enlightenment and the dawn of the space age, scientists have been unravelling cosmic mysteries, and raising...

We have the impression that the solar system is perfectly regular like a clock, or a planetarium instrument. On a short timescale it is. But, seen in a longer perspective, the planets, and their satellites, have exciting lives, full of events - for example, did you know that Saturn's moon, Titan, boasts lakes which contain liquid methane surrounded...