‘CUPICtv’ Archives
Best Beginner Telescopes
Best Beginner Telescopes By Aidan James I'm sometimes asked to recommend the best beginner telescopes and my first comment is often "the one you are most likely to use"! It's not that I'm intending to be blunt or to cause further confusion but seriously one of the over-riding factors is going to be whether you are going to be inclined to haul [...]
Super Massive Black Hole Formation
Super Massive Black Hole Formation By Dennis Huff A super massive black hole is thought to form from the joining of smaller black holes. Since black holes take in matter, over time they grow. If two black holes come together, and then another and so on, a super massive black hole is eventually formed. Most super massive black holes exist [...]
The Canals of Mars
The Canals of Mars By Steve Challis Discovery In 1877, Giovanni Schiaparelli of Italy was looking at Mars through his telescope and saw what he described as canali. I cannot speak Italian, and would probably guess that this meant canals. This is what many English speaking people did at the time, but apparently it means channels, not [...]
Starlight, Star Bright
Starlight, Star Bright By Kevin Manning How bright a star appears in the sky is commonly referred to as its apparent magnitude. More than 2,000 years ago during the Hellenistic period a Greek astronomer named Hipparchus came up with a system of classifying stars according to their brightness. In this original magnitude scale Hipparchus [...]
UFOs Are Inside the Mind of Humans
UFOs Are Inside the Mind of Humans By Norma Hickox The "secret " of manifestation of UFOs is inside the mind of all humans. This is why it is so confusing and so hard to understand. Every human being on the earth has these other beings as part of themselves. It is hard to explain using proper terminology so I would like to use an [...]
