Astronomer

leading theory was that only red giants could produce supernovas. When the origin of SN1987A was discovered, it forced astronomers to revise the theory to encompass the events of this supernova. What they came up with was that, similar to a red giant, a portion of the blue giant’s fuel was turned inward to the core. 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…

constellations are in the night sky. William Herschel was a German composer, teacher, and musician residing and working in Bath, England. He was also a novice astronomer until he discovered Uranus with his homemade telescope, which consisted of a 7 foot mirror reflector, that he had personally polished. At first he thought just as the other astronomers at that…

question that Dr. Troland asked was “where are we in the universe?”. Well we live on earth, which is part of our solar system, our solar system is part of the Milky Way, and the Milky Way is part of a cluster of galaxies called the Local Group. Astronomers use different wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation to measure celestial objects. Special telescopes are designed to measure different electromagnetic radiation, some include: radio telescopes, infrared telescopes, visible telescopes, and…

Moses Maimonides, in his Guide for the Perplexed written between 1137 and 1190, concerns Aristotle’s natural philosophy and the astronomers’ conflicting truths. Around the twelfth century, most were a devoted Aristotelian, and educated people knew that stars in the celestial realm only had one motion, to revolve in a spherical motion around the centre of the universe . What Maimonides notes however, is that Aristotelian physics could not infer the existence of epicycles and eccentric circles.…

article written on 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.”(10 Ancient…

some aspects of nature cannot be taught or learned, but only understood through experiences. Though the writing styles between these two poets are different, they still have a common theme. In Whitmans’ poem he is being lectured by a “learn’d astronomer” and Dickinson writes about being in a long and boring church service by…

In addition, to government control Louis XIV wanted religious control. He felt that the French Huguenots and the Protestants did not belong in France due to the fact that France was predominately Catholic (447). He abolished the Edict of Nanes, which allowed Huguenots and Protestants rights in France. In 1685, he published the Edict of Fontainebleau, which destroyed freedom of religion (447). Although, he was able to placed France in a powerful position, to the common people it meant nothing…

emerged, society gained a much more insightful understanding of the cosmos above. In the second century, an astronomer by the name of Claudius Ptolemy proposed his geocentric model of the solar system, which depicted Earth in the center of the universe and the planets and the Sun orbiting in concentric circles around it. There were problems with this model, however, and years later an astronomer named Nicolaus Copernicus proposed another model which showed the Sun at the center. Although…

probably have heard of the Big dipper, Little Dipper, Ursa Minor, Ursa Major, and Orion. These are the most well known and popular constellations and asterisms. An asterism is a group of stars that is not a constellation, but is well known by many astronomers. The history of how constellations came to be is amazing. Things including people, the discovery, why they were used, and how the sky was divided are all factors of the history of constellations. Today's current constellations are the same…

which he called planet X. But as Percival was looking for it he died in 1916 with no prevail, he had gotten pictures but planet X was very faint in the pictures, and so after 10 years the search for the planet began again but this time a 23 year old astronomer named Clyde Tombaugh who proved the existence of the mysterious planet in 1930; the planet was named Pluto after discovery.Pluto was called the smallest planet in our solar system and the ninth planet from the star, and most of it is made…