“Oh, be a fine girl/guy kiss me,” or maybe not. Learning this phrase has helped multiple astronomers to educate themselves on the spectral classification of stars and continues to do so in today’s time. Annie Jump Cannon’s legacy will carry on lasting a lifetime! The first letters of each word in the phrase represents the seven main types of stars. Starting with ”‘O,” these stars are very young, blue, hot, massive and extremely bright star.…
Storm brought his empty plate into the kitchen. He stood by the sink and watched Penny out in the patio. She stood back listening to the conversation between her mother and father, Arnold, and the two plump astronomers from ANU. She nodded her head politely and no doubt about it, gave polite chuckles at just the right time while they chatted on and on with each other.…
As the core grew, the supernova occurred, leaving behind what astronomers called a neutron star, a compact star entirely made of neutrons and very dense, to the point of forcing out the space between atoms. This was supported by the detection of the Neutrinos by an underground detector in Japan. Just as amazing as the mystery of the origin of SN1987A, is the story behind its…
What would you do if you were the god of all of the sea and freshwater? Also married to a woman who is the goddess of the salt water. “Neptune was the Roman god of the sea and freshwater. He is a piece of Poseidon the greek version of this god and was married to the goddess of salt water, Salacia and the child of Ops and Saturn. Neptune was the god of the sea and was a very powerful man.…
Eventually, the star will run out of hydrogen fuel in its core and this fusion will stop. The star will then start to collapse, but before it is able to completely collapse, a new shell of hydrogen gets going. This causes to outer layer of the star to puff out into a red giant. If a star is large enough, it will be able to begin burning helium to carbon. One this fuel runs out and this new process stops though, the star has absolutely no fuel it is able to use, so it releases its outer layers, which reveals the hot carbon core: the leftover material resulting from this last fusion reaction.…
What's your favorite candy bar? If it's not milky way then it will be by the end of this paper. Milky way is the best candy bar in the world! One reason that milky way is the best candy bar in the world is… that the caramel and chocolate is such a perfect mixture. The way the creamy texture of the chocolate and caramel mixing and melting when you bite into it is so delicious.…
The ultimate space book By Nathan Deline The ultimate space book The big bang 1. The big bang happened 13.8 million years ago 2.…
In this essay, I’m going to examine precession, its effects on the night sky, and other questions pertaining to this subject. First off, technically speaking precession is the slow change in the direction of the pole of a spinning body (Earth and its axis). Pretty much what this means is that the Earth wobbles as it spins about its axis and the axis changes directions slowly. This precession of Earth is caused due to the combination of both the gravitational pulls of the Sun and the Moon. Because the Earth is not a perfect ball and is fatter in the middle toward the equator the gravity of the sun and the moon pull on this fatter part of the Earth and cause the Earth to wobble.…
Christopher Tran EAS 1601: Writing Assignment 1 13 October 2015 Why Giant-Planet Cores do not Spiral Towards their Parent Stars http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v520/n7545/full/520040a.html Why are gas giant planets of exoplanetary systems at a distance of at least one astronomical unit from their host stars? As we learned in class, the gas giants form by accreting and colliding with smaller solid bodies from the disk. According to Duncan, this process of accretion can occur relatively fast for gas giants and reach critical mass that is “about 10 Earth masses”, and begins to accrete surrounding gases. The problem with this accretion process is that the growing planetismal creates a “gravitational wake” in the disk so that it will result…
The Final Frontier Why is space called the final frontier? The reason why space should be called the final frontier is because past space there is nothing left to explore. I believe that space is the final frontier. Three main points that help with this are Galaxies what they are their shapes and what lies within them. Lifeforms off of earth what’s out there and are they friendly.…
Pluto is the second closest dwarf planet to the sun and was at one point classified as the ninth planet. Pluto is the ninth planet from the Solar System. It’s nickname is Xena. Pluto’s origin of name is Plouton.…
Many cultures throughout history have referenced to distinct patterns in the sky formed by stars. These patterns have been called many things but now scientists refer to them as constellations. Often times in our society we forget what a privilege it is to have tracking tools and measuring devices but 5000 years ago they used these constellations to track time and be able to tell where they are. Constellations have been seen as specific animals or figures that are then told with myths. STILL NEED TO FINISH…
On July 14, 2015, the New Horizons space probe passed by Pluto and its five moons. This was an extraordinary discovery because for several decades, Pluto was just a speck in the sky. The New Horizons mission had been carried out for a little under decade and is the first spacecraft to fly past Pluto. Its main purpose is to observe Pluto and its five moons. It has a secondary mission and that is to explore the Kuiper Belt.…
Scientists believe that stars are made of mostly gas, and this gas is made up of many atoms. In the star, the atoms in the gas bang into each other and give off different light depending on the type of atoms. This light from stars enables scientists to figure out the type and amount of atoms they are made of. Knowing the composition of the stars, we can guess how they were formed. Therefore we can see that stars are just atoms (hydrogen) hitting each other producing light.…
It’s surface is made up of a rocky core surrounded by ice (Redd). Pluto’s mass and size, relative to earth, weighs about 1.30900 × 1022 kg and 1185.9256 km in diameter ("Mass and Density of Pluto" ); (Redd). Compared to Earth, Pluto’s density is 14330 kg/m³ lighter than Earth’s, being dense as 1880 kg/m³ ("Mass and Density of Pluto") . In addition, Pluto’s surface gravity, 0.658 m/s², is 1/12 smaller than Earth’s (“Pluto”). Composing of frozen nitrogen, methane, and carbon monoxide, Pluto is mostly made up of rock (“How Cold is Pluto?”).…