Planets are Really Freakin' Awesome
And I mean "awesome" in the truest sense such that I'm in awe of the vastness of the universe. There are so many planets! Trillions of trillions! The more I learn about them the more realize I don't know about them. There's so much out there! As a kid, studying space seemed so easy. Moon's got phases, there's a few planets, asteroids, comets, and whatnot, the Sun is big and hot, and constellations are neat. But then I learned about how we learned about these things--about the robotic explorers that visited the planets and the telescopes we build. Those are cool! How do we make those things? How did we get a car-sized rover to Mars? How did we learn what Saturn's rings are made of? How do we know how far the stars are? And what is the Sun doing that makes it so hot all the time? How do we know about this stuff? For as long as I remember, I've had an interest in learning about how stuff works and why things are the way they are. This naturally led ...