Dwarf planet

Imagine moving from Earth, to a planet where the sun shines once every seven years, and when it isn’t shining its raining. Well that is what the main character of Ray Bradbury’s short story “All Summer in a Day” had to go through. Margot, the main character, moved from Ohio to the planet Venus, when she was only four years old. She had been living on Venus for about five years and it was hard for her since the sun meant so much to her. She got picked on and bullied a lot, just because she was so…

Hayy developed a cosmology to portray how he understood the world through the use of observation, speculation, and comparison, without it he would have never discovered how interconnected the universe was. Hayy understands the world in a way that is similar to Copernicus and the rest of previous scientists. His theory of the world stemmed from developments that took place over 28 years in seven-year increments (Ibn Ṭufayl 1150, pg. 128). Hayy understood the world through the basis of the four…

Picture you are on Earth 5 billion years into the future. The sun is closing in on Earth and the Earth is burning up. What are you going to do? This is why it is so important to explore space, because humans could go extinct if we don’t find another planet to colonize on before the sun swallows Earth. Also, space has helped us learn about the moon and even Earth. I take the position that we should explore outer space instead of exploring underwater because eventually we will have to evacuate…

Nicolaus Copernicus was one of the most innovative astronomers during renaissance, he is best known as “The founder” of modern astronomy. He became famous thanks to his studies on the sky and the revolutionary motion of the earth finding out that the theory of geocentrism, at that time the one believed truth by people, was wrong. Instead of it he proposed the theory of heliocentrism which, in contrast to the geocentric one, proposes the sun at the center of universe instead of the earth. After…

At the time of Galileo a Dutch inventor invented something that can look for far away objects. It was a spyglass which Galileo took and improved upon. His improved version was a telescope. According to James Owen, “..but his version boosted the viewing power to eight-times magnification(James Owen).” This shows that Galileo made the telescope stronger so people can see distant objects. His telescope was better than the ones at the time. Also Victoria Jaggard wrote, “But in the fall of 1609…

mighty warrior [...] some Romans worshipped him, even leaving sacrifices at his altar” (“All about Mars”). The first observers of the planet Mars date back to the ancient Egyptians in the 2nd Millennium, the Chinese in 1045 BC, and the Babylonians in 400 BC. The Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus, who developed the Heliocentric Theory, theorized that Mars was a planet sometime in 1500 AD. Moreover, NASA’s official Mars exploration web page states, “[In 1609 AD] Johannes Kepler [...] publishes…

pulls inward and the centrifugal force pushing outward that is how the water stays in place but the Moon’s gravity is strong enough to disrupt the steady ocean levels by pulling water towards the Moon this causes a bulge of water on one side of the planet. As the Earth rotates and the Moon orbits the bulge of water moves. Those are the basics about how everything works. The high tides is where the bulge is and the low…

In My Brilliant Friend, Ferrante reveals that the change from childhood to adolescence is scary and upsetting because the breakdown of innocence occurs. In the first chapter of Adolescence, Lila’s experience of “dissolving margins” (2) is symbolic of what occurs in every child during puberty. Furthermore, Ferrante symbolizes change with the motif of fire, which is seen in the fireworks display. During the display, Lila feels disgust towards the changes she sees in her brother and repulsion…

contained a seventh planet… I perceived its visible planetary disk as soon as I saw it.” At the time, many believed that the discovery of a new planet was not something that was very likely to be true.…

a slide show about space. It wouldn’t have been so bad if the ceiling wasn’t the screen. The Planetarium is dome shaped, so we had to lean back in our seats and look up at the ceiling. It wasn’t very fun, but I did learn that Venus is the hottest planet. The scavenger hunt was alright. It wasn’t my most favorite activity, but it wasn’t my least favorite either. I learned that we live in the Cenozoic era. Overall, the Thronateeska was interesting, but it wasn’t very exciting. Aside from the…