Astronomer

the sky, according to Dawdlez, “Back then, astronomy had quite a significant mystical component so these scribes also interpreted omens for the king and warned him about potential future events. Afterwards the records were archived so that future astronomers could use them to learn to make their own observations.” It was celebrated in Babylonian culture to seek aid…

Boyle develops a story of an astronomer, who is constantly devoted to his work of discovering what the heavens may hold, his wife, the recipient of his lack of affection, and a plumber, who is used as a contrasting piece to the astronomer through his down-to-earth methods. The author uses key phrases to place the…

sun faster than all the other planets. Mercury is an extremely interesting planet in our solar system. Ancient people who lived in Mesopotamia(current day Iraq) called the Sumerians, first saw the planet Mercury in 3rd millennium B.C. Many old astronomers had trouble finding Mercury in the sky with their telescopes because Mercury only appears on the horizon right before dawn and right before dusk. Early civilizations in Greece named the planet Apollo in the morning and Hermes in the evening.…

title : Women’s Status Affects Scientific Research Research Question: How did the woman status affect the works of Maria Winkelmann Kirch during the scientific revolution. Between the 15th and the 16th century, Maria Winkelmann Kirch became a German astronomer regardless of the obstacles that faced many female scientists. Winkelmann strongly believed that she equally deserved the type of education that the men in general received. Even though her status left her high and dry in terms of getting…

though it is about 2.5 million light-years away from Earth. The unaided eye, however, can only perceive the galaxy as a whole and is unable to distinguish features within the galaxy. Luckily, microscopes combined with the intellect of many bright astronomers over the years have allowed us to better understand what the human eye cannot see, in particular what lies beyond the Milky Way Galaxy in our neighboring galaxy. This paper will focus on some of the recent discoveries and observations on…

Langston Hughes revolves around the universal power of trust and love and its impacts in “Thank You Ma’am” . When a poor teenage boy tries to steal the purse of a large lady at night, he is thrown off by its unusually heavy weight. Roger falls down as his legs fly up, and Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones smoothly kicks him. Instead of reporting him to the city police, she literally drags him in a half-nelson hold to her home. As they enter her cozy household, Mrs. Jones leaves the door open,…

Astronomers from the International Astronomical Union (IAU), an organization that functions as an international consensus marker in astronomy, were assigned the task of voting on the definition of planets. Some have criticized that this discussion amongst scientists was not without political and non-scientific emotions or nostalgia. One rendition of the definition would have kept Pluto as a planet and included Eris and Ceres, boosting the number of planets to twelve. Still another recommendation…

Tombaugh was an American astronomer who worked for the Lowell observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona" (Wikipedia). When Pluto was discovered it was classified as a planet, it became the 9th planet in the solar system. It wasn't much longer before its classification was in questioned, as a result people started saying that it was not a planet no more, but the classification was now a Kuiper Belt left over. "The Kuiper Belt was discovered by Gerard Kuiper, he was an Astronomer who predicated the…

size. NASA has confirmed 1746 exoplanets exist and there is surely more to be discovered. The Kepler mission was too find and statistically characterizes planets outside of our solar system. This report will explain the ways that scientists and astronomers detect exoplanets, some of the most ground breaking discoveries in regards to exoplanets, and the severity of the habitable zone in regards to life being possible on a foreign planet. 2.0 Why does the type of star the planets are orbiting…

Neptune was discovered in the 1800s due to astronomers observing Uranus. Uranus’s placement wasn't exactly where they thought it was. They determined that there was another planet’s gravity pulling on Uranus. On September 23, 1846, the newly discovered planet was named after the Roman god of the seas, Neptune. The three founders of planet were astronomers Urbain Leverrier, Johann Gottfried Galle, and John Couch Adams. Before Voyager 2 passed Neptune, astronomers thought the eighth planet would…