Astronomer

existence was actually predicted before it was even seen through a telescope. This could be done through the use of mathematical calculations. Alexis Bouvard, a French Astronomer at the time, had managed to observe irregularities in Uranus’ orbit, suggesting that this may be due to another celestial body. Johann Galle (a German astronomer), through the use of subsequent calculations, led to locating Neptune with a telescope. It is believed that Galileo Galilei had previously sketched the planet,…

nebulae, looking for double stars, and searching for signs of life on other worlds.” (Ruskin 282) He basically discovered Uranus by accident supposing at first that it was a comet. After sharing his find with other astronomers, they questioned whether it was a comet at all. One astronomer named Nevil Maskelyne “suggested that [it] might be a planet” but it took several months of observations to confirm this truth. This was a great find of his day because it was the first planet to be discovered…

kinds. Theoretical astrophysicists are trying to understand the physical processes while observational astrophysicists test theories to explain how our universe works (academicinvest.com). Although they have their differences, astrophysicists and astronomers are quite similar. Astrophysicists, however, tend to apply physics to their work more often than not, hence the title, “astrophysicist” (curious.astro.cornell.edu). Astrophysics isn’t a new thing. In fact, astronomy and astrophysics…

If it was found out that other galaxies are not moving further, and further away from us quickly.. This would cause the Big Bang Theory too lose its credibility. Also if many other pieces of evidence were found out to be untrue , I believe this theory would lose much of its credibility. The first part of this theory, I will be discussing my main point, which is whether galaxies are moving away from us or not and at what speed. According to Hubble's law, the universe has been expanding since…

magnetosphere, which according to NOAA is the region of space surrounding an astronomical object in which charged particles are controlled by that object's magnetic field. Ganymede was discovered on January 7th, 1610 by Galileo Galilei, an Italian astronomer that played a huge role in the scientific revolution during the Renaissance era. Galilei got the name Ganymede from the mythological Ganymede, cupbearer of the Greek gods and Zeus's beloved. Although Galilei is credited with the discovery of…

Finding Self, Whitman’s Way: The One Among the Crowd “The impalpable sustenance of me from all things, at all hours of the day; The simple, compact, well-join’d scheme-myself disintegrated, everyone disintegrated, yet part of the scheme” (Whitman. “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry.). Walt Whitman was a graceful, yet outlaw poet that pushed the boundaries ink and paper. Whitman’s works were a journey of finding self through the natural world and his relation to the world, along with cleaver wording that…

Even some of the astronomers on the team that found the possible signal around the vicinity of HD 164595 think that there is more of a prosaic explanation. The best explanation so far is that the Russian military satellite caused the signal. It has done similar things like…

Career and College Research Paper “The astronomer is, in some measure, independent of his fellow astronomer; he can wait in his observatory till the star he wishes to observe comes to his meridian; but the meteorologist has his observations bounded by a very limited horizon, and can do little without the aid of numerous observers furnishing him contemporaneous observations over a wide-extended area.” (Epsy). Meteorology is the study of climate change and weather, another word for them would be…

That’s when Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens came in to prove his theory wrong. Due to improved telescopes, he was able to realize that they were, in fact, not arm, but a complex ring system. To add onto that, he also discovered one of the largest moons in our system, Titan, which again, is part of greco-roman mythological naming trend that was going on at the time. Huygens has a space probe named after him, which is actually exploring the very moon he discovered. Another astronomer by the…

New possibilities opened up in 1915, when Einstein formulated his famous theory that describes the nature of space, time, and gravity. This theory allows for expansion the fabric of space. In 1917, astronomer Willem De Sitter applied this theory and showed that the universe could be expanding. This was revolutionary because accepted view at the time was that the universe was static in size. Also the universe was considered infinite at one point in time…