Andromeda Galaxy

Connor Calvert Jeff Burdick English 1AH TTH 10:00am 24 August 2017 The Measure of Darkness Travelling has been a passion of mine ever since I was a child. The best memories of growing up are the many times my parents took my sisters and I on road trips to see the many wonders of the world. This is what got me interested in nature and how the world works. Of the many trips that our family took across the world, the most memorable was only a few short summers ago. In the summer of 2014, our…

charted by Ptolemy in the second century. In Greek mythology, Perseus was the son of Zeus. Perseus is most famous for killing Medusa the Gorgon with Pegasus. Perseus also is known for saving. Princess Andromeda from Poseidon's sea monster Cetus. Perseus directly borders the constellations Andromeda, Cassiopeia, and Cepheus, who all make up the Royal Family in the…

have learned about Isaac Newton and his laws beforehand. Newton’s laws of gravity were created centuries ago and is the reason we can make all the predications we do today. The laws were used to predict the collision between the Milky Way and Andromeda Galaxy in four billion years. Learning about the collision was fascinating, too bad this won’t be happening anytime during my existence. The Oort Cloud was mentioned, where trillions of comets are…

Final Draft of Writing Assignment: Arguing about Art Scientifically, humans have five senses: hearing, sight, smell, taste, and touch; adding on intuition as the sixth sense according to today’s Psychology (What are the six senses?). An image or music that triggers these senses of ours is my interpretation of art. Arts comes many different forms: paintings, murals, photographs, dances, fashions to food decorations. A work of art provokes thoughts and evokes emotions like sentimental…

to hang us upside down. Otherwise, brings tonnes of joy in which does not last sufficiently long. Imagine expectations can drive us nuts, instead of mentally putting us into the realms of reality. It’s a whole different galaxy, like between that of the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxy which is billion light years apart. How do people react? In this wise Earth, people whose going through life’s up and down told us we will be sailing if we cruised along the road trip to the unknown or uncertainty.…

outfitted with a new adaptive mirror system, allowing the mirror to be adjusted with the fluctuations of the atmosphere. [14] This observatory was so impressive that it would eventually be used by Edwin Hubble to make stunning discoveries about the Andromeda galaxy. [15] The observatory was part of much scientific research, there is no doubt about that, but now it serves a different, but equally important role. It is open to the public and serves as a vital part of education on the stars and our…

Sleepless nights spent ruminating and regurgitating past events all the while ruing their aftermath often drained Surina the next morning; nonetheless, on the first full day in space, she awoke restored. Certainly, her restful sleep was not entirely due to the profound physical exhaustion from the lift off to space. Rather, after her consciousness roamed amongst the stars, she gained a fresh perspective that allowed her to rest from the burden of her sorrows for the first time in many years.…