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Discovered a Potentially Habitable 'Sister Solar System'

NASA just announced that they have discovered seven Earth-Sized planets orbiting around the habitable or 'temperate zone' o...

Absolute Magnitude and Distance Modulus The apparent brightness of a star depends upon their intrinsic brightness or luminosi...

Stellar Magnitude Stars in General greatly differ in brightness from one another, the magnitude scale had been developed on the basis...

Strain Strain is the amount of deformation of a body due to an applied force; it is defined as the fractional change in dimension...

Non-linear Optics Nonlinear optics (NLO) is the branch of optics that describes the behavior of light in nonlinear media, that is, media...

Operational Amplifier An Operational Amplifier or op-amp is a high gain differential amplifier with high input impedance a...

Optical Mixing When 2 coherent electromagnetic beams are allowed to move through a non-linear medium in same direction with same speed...

The Mystery of Prince Rupert`s Drops. Prince Rupert`s Drops are tadpole-shaped droplet with a long, thin tail. It is actually toughen...