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Jun 22, 2024 · The first of four series of novels published under the title Tales of My Landlord was composed of The Black Dwarf and the masterpiece Old Mortality (1816). These were followed by the masterpieces Rob Roy (1817) and The Heart of Midlothian (1818), and then by The Bride of Lammermoor and A Legend of Montrose (both 1819).
- James Hogg
Hogg spent most of his youth and early manhood as a shepherd...
- Archibald Constable
Archibald Constable was the most gifted bookseller-publisher...
- James Hogg
3 days ago · The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System. It is a massive, nearly perfect sphere of hot plasma, heated to incandescence by nuclear fusion reactions in its core, radiating the energy from its surface mainly as visible light and infrared radiation with 10% at ultraviolet energies.
Jul 9, 2024 · The Short Answer: Dark matter is stuff in space that has gravity, but it is invisible and isn’t like anything else we know about. Dark matter makes up about 27% of the universe. Dark energy makes up roughly 68% of the universe. We don’t know much about dark energy either, but we do know there is a lot of it.
5 days ago · Darren lives in Portland, has a cat, and writes/edits about sci-fi and how our world works. You can find his previous stuff at Gizmodo and Paste if you look hard enough. Here's how faint dwarf ...
6 days ago · The black hole is unlikely to be any bigger than about 50,000 times as massive as the sun, he says, because if that were the case then scientists would expect many more stars to be affected by its ...
1 day ago · However, (a) the term black dwarf was already in use to refer to a cold white dwarf; (b) red dwarfs fuse hydrogen; and (c) these objects may be luminous at visible wavelengths early in their lives. Because of this, alternative names for these objects were proposed, including planetar and substar .
4 days ago · The latest brown dwarf proposed for the Y spectral type, WISE 1828+2650, is a > Y2 dwarf with an effective temperature originally estimated around 300 K, the temperature of the human body. Parallax measurements have, however, since shown that its luminosity is inconsistent with it being colder than ~400 K.
