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My picks for the @blocktrades World Cup 2018 competition. More info here Score Team Team Score W Russia vs Saudi Arabia L L Egypt vs Uruguay W T Morocco vs Iran T T Portugal vs Spain T W France vs Australia

HELLO STEEMIANS! After amazing comments and huge number of upvotes for my previous cooking post, I decided to continue the same way. Last time fish and now something super sweet! Here is the photo of final

HELLO STEEMIT! It's been a while since my last post, and in the spirit of New Year, I decided to switch from writing science articles to doing something else. Something more fun. I was  never skillful

INTRODUCTION Rotational curves of spiral galaxies are the main tool for determining mass distribution in spiral galaxies. They provide us fundamental information necessary for understanding dynamics, evolution

Being an Astrophysicist is not a simple task. Mostly when meeting new people and explaining astro things to them. First, inevitable question is ''what do you do?''. After getting an answer, they are usually

Image source This tiny guy's name is Tardigrade, but he has many other nicknames such as water bear, space bear or moss piglet, although he does not like a bear nor  piglet. Image source This is much

This is image of Dumbbell nebula taken by me. This is planetary nebula and it is located 1360 light years away from the Earth. Just to make sure you understand how far this is- 12866318600000000 kilometers.

First step to applying to graduate school in USA is taking required exams. These exams are GRE Subject (Graduate Record Examination) and you will take different GRE depending in what field you are applying

Detecting an exoplanet is no easy job. Reasons are obvious- exoplanets are orbiting stars other than the Sun, and the nearest star is extremely far away. Planets are usually small bodies, compared to stars,

This is the image of M51 galaxy, a.k.a. Whirlpool galaxy. It is located at a distance of 23 million light years away from the Earth. The image was taken by me, in 2015, at the Mt. Vidojevica, using 60

We all have been witnessing growing propaganda from flat-Earth community. They are calling for common sense, claiming everything is clear and obvious, and we have been lied to for some odd reasons. Well,

This article takes us more than 2000 years back in the past, in Greece. Ancient Greece was a unique place, because science was one of the most important segments of their everyday life. Greek scientists

So, I was listening to Nick Cave, and song ''Till the end of the world'' came along and it inspired me to think about the title of the song. As you all probably anticipate, our home, we call planet Earth,

Primordial nucleosynthesis a.k.a. Big Bang nucleosynthesis is theory of formation of first chemical elements in the early Universe. It is one of three evidences for Big Bang, along with expansion of the

It is not exaggeration if I say that Aristarchus of Samos was one of the most brilliant minds ever. Without any doubt, he was the greatest astronomer of ancient Greece. But, what's so extraordinary about

To quote Douglas Adams, “Space is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s

Voyager I is space probe launched by NASA in 1977. Voyager's primary mission was to study Jupiter, Saturn, and Saturn's moon Titan. After making important discoveries here, such as active volcanoes on

Football is the most popular game in the world. It is so widespread because of its simple rules, compared to some other sports, because of less infrastructure and equipment needed, you only need a ball

If someone asked you 'who was the richest man ever?' your answer would probably be Bill Gates, Jack Ma, Jeff Bezos, or maybe John Rockefeller. The correct answer is much more unexpected The richest man