Astronomer

station on the moon or mars is not a superior idea because not very many people fly to space. Very few people have the money to get up and take a trip to space because they have nothing significant to be doing. The only people who visit space is the astronomers. How many people of the world…

There are many astronomers out there, but the one person that stood out to me was Edwin Hubble. It is because of Edwin, we now have a better understanding on the distance in the universe and that it’s expanding. His research was very remarkable that he had a telescope with his name. Since Edwin established the scale of the universe and laid the observational basis, he helped us understand what are galaxies like in the universe. To start off, Edwin noticed a Cepheid variable in the Andromeda…

Dark matter is dark, meaning it is not in the form of stars and planets that we can see. Where did dark matter come from? Astronomers have always wondered for ages about the existence of dark matter. The ugly truth is that they aren’t too sure what it is made up of, but they do know that dark matter is up in space. Dark matter is thought to exist as large black rings surrounding…

in1929 by Edwin Hubble. His observation supports the expansion of the universe and also proposes that the entire universe billions of years ago, was once compacted. This piece of evidence discovered by Edwin Hubble, has provided many modern day astronomers with much needed help to gain evidence for the theory of the Big Bang. It has also been discovered that the abundance of “light elements” Hydrogen and Helium which have been found in the universe, have also helped to support the Big Bang…

or the reservoirs of insight run out. Plenty of promising theories prove dead wrong. Others prove to be of limited utility, given later information” (para. 9). But what if these wells of incite produce more than what has been revealed? What if astronomers actually do know whether or not intelligent alien life does exist elsewhere within the universe, and…

Therefore, international collaboration in space exploration is very important because it leads to camaraderie between countries. Knowledge One of the most obvious benefits of space exploration is the expansion of our knowledge. Overtime, the machines astronomers and astronauts use have become increasingly complicated. For example, before we used simplistic telescopes to monitor changes in the sky and to watch the stars. Now we have satellites that orbit the Earth from the outside to get…

premise for Ellie Arroway's journey in discovering intelligent life in space in the movie and book, Contact (Scoles). Sarah Scoles, along with three female astronomers, Fischer, Batalha, Turnbull, discuss the person who is the inspiration for this fictional tale: Jill Tarter. Scoles's article focuses on the work of the three female astronomers' work, but mostly about "Jill Tarter—the long-time leader of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence..." (Scoles). Tarter, and fellow SETI (search…

the star AU Microscopii, or AU Mic, by the use of the SPHERE instrument of the VLT. Astronomers observe AU Mic in hopes of better grasping how planets form and evolve through the young star’s behavior. Now, thanks to the high-contrast images SPHERE has captured, there’s a new mystery to add to the list. Observations have shown something unexpected, Anthony Boccaletti writes in a statement. Boccaletti, an astronomer at the Observatoire de Paris, France, goes on to say that the images from SPHERE…

organized religion with its hierarchies and rules, but his language is full of Biblical references and talk of the soul and the spirit. That the body and the soul are two sides of the same coin. The second poem is "When I heard the Learn'd Astronomer" whereas the astronomer might argue that his abstract knowledge amounts to the contemplation of divine and eternal things, Whitman affirms the body and the senses over the mind. The Third poem is "I hear America Singing" you get a sense of…

about ten minutes, so within that time there was a set amount of elements created, including hydrogen, helium, and lithium. When astronomers measure the ratios of these elements, they match up with the perspective of the universe once being a ginormous star. 24% of ordinary elements are helium made at that time during the Big Bang. Thanks to the contributions of astronomers, we can understand our universe better than ever before.We still have much to learn, but there’s no doubt, with as much…