I t was not born to be just there But so it was, brushed aside in despair It stood in the center, orbited by the others Only to be compared to its brothers Even the distant galaxies laughed at it For its failure to outshine them seemed so unfit And so it stood in the centre there Alone, uncared for, unaware But soon came an asteroid that wisely said 'To be the sun, o' mighty one Thou should know to trust whats begun For come what may, you are the one So never question yourself, shine like a sun' The Sun expanded, fierce and bright, Absorbing the power of endless light, Yet the planets still mocked its lonely might, But this time, the Sun paid no heed to their spite.
(This post contains all my knowledge about black holes that I have come to learn recently) – Exoplanets 1.1 – What is an Exoplanet? Put simple, exoplanets are just planets in the universe that don’t orbit our sun. We believed that they existed for hundreds of years despite having no evidence or any detections, until eventually our technology became good enough to let us detect these mysterious little worlds. 1.2 – History into the discovery of exoplanets Back in the 1600’s there was an Italian philosopher named Giordano Bruno who was far ahead of his time. Bruno believed that the universe has no center, and that the stars in the sky are just like our sun, with their own set of planets and moons surrounding them. In fact, it was this very belief that had him tried for heresy by the Roman Inquisition as these facts went against the Catholic beliefs of the time. He was found guilty and burned at the stake. Perhaps the first believer in these wonderful worlds burnt at th...
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