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The Kepler Telescope main instrument is a photometer. This instrument measures the brightness of stars within its field of view. Data is then gathered and analyzed to detect any variations or deviations of light which is caused by the transits of plants of host stars. These dips in light help in detecting planets in "Habitable Zones". Gliese-581g The planet Gliese 581g is one of six possible planets in the constellation Libra. This exoplanet was discovered in late September 2010. The main reason…

The constellation is easy to find in the sky because it is located near the centre of the Milky Way. It contains a number of notable stars and deep sky objects, which makes it easier to find. The three main stars it contains are Antares, Shaula, and In Greek mythology, the constellation Scorpius was identified with the scorpion that killed Orion, the mythical hunter. The two constellations lie opposite each other in the sky, and Orion is said to be fleeing from the scorpion as it sets just as…

HOW THE SUN CAME TO BE By Coleton Frizzle Long ago before the Sun was a huge star, it was a normal day until the smallest star ever born. Its name was “Sun.” Everyday Sun tried to talk to the other stars, all they did was laugh and say. “Look it’s midget man! The smallest star in-the galaxy!” All Sun could do was bow down his head and say nothing. One day the Sun ran into Sundray, the biggest star of them all, and his guards, the planets. “Look who it is, its Sun the smallest of them all…

our understanding of black holes. In 2015 a star 25x the size of our sun was supposed to explode into a huge supernova but it got crushed under it's own weight and became a new black hole and that is the only black hole we have seen form in record. Our universe would be really different if we didn't have black holes so i'm going to tell you about how the universe would be different. The first way that the universe would be different is that the stars would be so much different because they…

disappearance of ships over the horizon, the tops of the sails disappearing last. There was also the shape of the curved shadows of the earth on the moon during eclipses and the variation of the star’s elevation with latitude. The fact that one sees new stars as ones move north or south on the earth’s surface was a backing to this idea. Another one, which most wouldn’t guess would be elephants. When someone travels west from Greece, they find elephants (African). When someone travels East…

that big star filled sky does as well. It doesn't just scare me, but it probably scares and excites scientists studying it all over the world. Since we only know a fraction of the inter-workings of the universe, there are many questions and things going on that we simply have no answer for yet. Dark Energy darkenergy-1 Dark Energy is the unknown force/energy that takes up around 70% of the universe. Sure, you look up and see billions of stars, but there's also the space between those stars…

"The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day."-Brainy Quote. There are a hundred stars in the sky on a clear night. There are also hundred more when looking through a telescope. With the announcment of the detection of the star Proxima Centauri, it set off excitement in the scientist community about an "Earth-like" star. Proxima Centauri is a red dwarf srat that has lowmass and is about 4.25 light years from the Sun. This star was discovered by Robert Innes who was an astronomer in…

Our system began to create four.6 billion years past from a whirling mass cloud. provide or take a handful of million years, the gas cooled and joined to create giant bodies referred to as “protoplanets,” that later became the planets we all know these days. no matter was left when the planets shaped became comets or asteroids, strewn concerning everywhere the system. when a hundred million years, the big ball of gas at the middle of this whirling mass cloud hot and exploded during a vast…

106 04/26/2017 Debate of view points Russell: Henry Norris Russell was born in October 25, 1877 and died February 18, 1957. He dedicated Sixty years at Princeton University, as a student and professor. Russell, like many in this time, believed that stars were composed of the same identical elements that are present on Earth. The shared belief of physicists at the time was, “what we know here, must be true out there.” This changed in the 19th century when the use of spectrography arose.…

The purpose of the lab was to fully understand the Herztsprung-Russel diagram. We use this diagram to categorize stars with their stellar properties. By examining a star’s temperature, relative size, and luminosity for instance, you can plot them on an HR diagram. During the lab we did four different activities to understand the lab. The first was to look at a group of squares with different sizes, letters, color, and numbers. We categorized them based on color and then in order from smallest…