Dwarf planet

To humans who live on Earth, we perceive Earth as a large mass of land that has been around for about 4.6 billion years. But the Earth is only a small part of what makes up the Universe. Earth is located in the Milky Way Galaxy, and contains billions of stars, which is only a small fraction of the 100 billion galaxies. While the Universe has been around for roughly 13.82 billion years, everyday we learn more and more about the complexities that were once hidden from us. One of the main things…

In all summer in a day , Ray Bradburry shows that you have to be thankful for the little things. Including things that are unexpected or abnormal. And also that change is difficult to adapt to. With everything uncomfortable comes comfort, and in this case she was called lying, but then had fun talking about the sun. In the story, Margot is a news girl adapting to the Venus structure. Since she’s been there it's been nothing but tough roads and windy turns. During her school hours, they make…

In Edgar Rice Burroughs’s story, “Under the Moons of Mars,” there are many instances of both fantasy and science fiction. When the narrator is describing things, he talks in a very scientific way. When describing a creature from Mars, he tells the reader, “the feet themselves were heavily padded… (which) is a characteristic feature of the fauna of Mars” (151). This is the way a scientist would talk about an animal, not the way a layperson tells someone about what they saw. The narrator also…

present (Source E). The human race could strive to focus their efforts on conservation of the planet and acceptable social interactions could prove to be more beneficial than space exploration. Even though, space exploration could be the next foundations of human ideals and evolution. If human beings acquire such difficulty on the one planet that unites tem together as a species and to protect the only planet suitable for life, are human beings really prepared to interact and explore…

The Martian, by Andy Weir, is a science fiction novel whose readers will constantly wonder: Will Watney make it out alive? Or will NASA just recover a frozen corpse? Astronaut Mark Watney, who is stranded on Mars and presumed dead, will be faced with life threatening situations that will entice readers through the whole story. Watney will have to figure out how to survive on Mars: what to eat, how to communicate, how to get water, and how to maintain a human-friendly environment. This novel…

Eratosthenes was a Greek mathematician, poet, and astronomer, but he is most famously known for being the first person to make a measurement for the size of the Earth. Over 2000 years ago, at the city of Syene, the sun’s rays fell upon a temple column casting a shadow, (1). The scientist noticed that as the sun reached midday, the shadow would not be casted since the sun was directly over the column. However, 800 kilometers to the north in the city of Alexandria, at the same moment at noon,…

In the story “All Summer In a Day’ Ray Bradbury includes many different metaphors just like how the sun is related to Margot’s hope for happiness.The sun also symbolizes everyone's missing happiness or hope for the one thing that's missing. Margot also has to deal with the other kids teasing and torment about her saying she saw the sun on earth and the kids hate her for that.When the scientists finally said the rain would stop after seven years those kids just had to lock her in the…

Unlike Kepler's first and second laws that describe the motion characteristics of a single planet, the third law makes a comparison between the motion characteristics of different planets. The comparison being made is that the ratio of the squares of the periods to the cubes of their average distances from the sun is the same for every one of the planets. As an illustration, consider the orbital period and average distance from sun (orbital radius) for Earth and mars. The…

Red Rising is a science fiction novel that explores what life could be like on other planets aside from Earth. I recommend Red Rising to people who liked the books The Hunger Games, Maze Runner, and The Martian as well as books about the future. Red Rising is novel that starts slowly at first, like many novels, but explores life on Mars,…

Humans have an indefinite desire to explore the unknown and push their boundaries to discover new frontiers. Space exploration has allowed humans to test the limits of technology and understand the place of our planet in the solar system. However, the exploration of the cosmic world still remains debatable as some believe that the resources spent on space technology could be used to solve existing problems on Earth such as poverty. Conversely, space technology is the catalyst to form other…