Nebula

The Wardaman people of northern Australia tell of Utdjungon, a being who lives in the Coalsack nebula by the Southern Cross. He will cast a fiery star to the Earth if laws and traditions are not followed. The falling star will cause the earth to shake and the trees to topple. The Luritja people of Central Australia also tell stories about a fire devil coming down from the Sun, an object that fell to Earth as punishment for breaking sacred law, crashing into Earth and killing everything in the…

and are also inside of the asteroid belt. The surface of terrestrial planets are very rocky and contain metal. It is believed that our planets form from nebulas. A nebula is a cloud of interstellar gas and dust. According to Nola Taylor Redd contributor of space.com “4.6 years ago, the solar system was a cloud of dust and gas know as a solar nebula. With the rise of the sun, the remaining material began to clump up. Small particles drew together, bound by the force of gravity, into larger…

Eighteenth and 19th century technologies transformed the way in which the night sky was observed and led to the discovery of celestial wonders, from stars, galaxies, meteors, moons, planets, comets to nebula. The result was, in part, the creation of celestial maps that showed an exponential number of stars in the heavens, adding to the awe of a sphere that is millions of miles away and beautiful beyond compare. Star atlases became a way of conveying information about the heavens, and Elijah H.…

stars start out in their main sequence, but the first difference between the mass of stars is when they stop producing energy. The low-mass stars become giant, and the high-mass stars become super giant. For low-mass, the star then becomes a planetary nebula, then finally a white dwarf. High-mass stars become a supernova, a giant explosion, then can become either a neutron star or a black hole. While still in the main sequence, though, stars go through nuclear fusion to produce heat and energy.…

When we look up into the sky we think that we are living the present, but in all reality we living and looking at the past. The light that we see from stars takes time to reach earth, this means that we can be looking at the light of a star that was produced four years ago; this is a result of the distance between earth and the star. The life and death span of a star depends on the mass of the star. Based on the distance of the sun from the earth and the amount of energy that the sun produces,…

Exploration to Destruction Since man has been put on the Earth there has always been a curiosity for the unknown, especially for what lies beyond the Earth. We have gone from only being able to see the moon and stars with our naked eyes to studying Pluto and landing on the Moon. There are many different ways that we discover planets and many different components that we study. Some examples of what we use to find planets are the Doppler Effect, Astrometry, Transit Photometry, and Direct Imaging…

Her predecessors had invented many schemes on how to divide and classify the stars. After examining the bright southern hemisphere stars, she simplified these schemes into “classes O, B, A, F, G, K, and M, and she retained P for planetary nebula and Q for unusual stars…she also added numerical divisions, further dividing each class into 10 steps from 0 to 9 (e.g., the Sun’s spectral type is G2” (britannica). Based on the strength of hydrogen spectral lines, she classified stars in accordance…

which the first four are called the Galilean moons as of their discovery in 1614 by Galileo. Jupiter formed about 4.6billion years ago from the cloud of dust and gas that made up the early Solar System. This early Solar System is known as a solar nebula. This cloud of dust and gas was compressed by a super nova from another part of the galaxy. This compression caused the cloud of dust and gas to form a flat disk. A product of this compression is that the…

Ender’s Game is the first book in the Ender trilogy, and was published in 1985. The other books include Speaker for the Dead, as well as Xenocide. Card won both the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award for best novel for Ender’s Game in successive years. The novel was also made into a film. Orson Scott Card has written over fifty books. Among the most recent is the Pathfinders series. Card lives in North Carolina with his wife, and is a professor…

Arthur C Clarkes' "The Star" takes place in a spaceship in which the narrator and his crew members are going to explore the remains of the Phenix Nebula, a star that became a supernova. The purpose of the trip was to investigate the explosion of the star and learn from the catastrophe. But upon arrival they encounter the remains of a planet that had left what can be interpreted as a time capsule. This vault contained every aspect of the civilization that once habited the planet. The finding of…