Ecliptic

The Big Dipper is the first constellation I learned to identify as a child. Though I made up stories and constellations as I stared into the velvety darkness, the Big Dipper was the only "real" one I knew. This constellation is one of the easiest to find, as well as being one of the few that can be spotted year-round in North America. It is also part of another constellation, Ursa Major. Another advantage to being able to point out is that it also becomes easy to find Polaris, the North Star. If…

The Moon has not always sat in the sky watching over the Earth and all its inhabitants. No. In fact the Moon used to wander the earth just like any creature or human does now - as did the Sun. This is the story of what she did before she sat up in the sky. This is the story of the Moon and her only friend. The Sun was loved by all. His heart was warm and his smile was bright. His hands were strong hands that as they touched the earth could make bright green plants sprout from even the driest…

Call to Your Tribe For most of my life I have always felt a little out of place, like I am walking around in a humans body, but that’s not who I really am.I am often the guardian of the lost and protector of the week. While this road I am on is not the always the easiest,I understand now that this is the contract I took on when I came to this life. As much as I have tried to fight it, it’s who I am. This road that I have chosen is one that can be quit lonely and this is the part I have…

“Sorry doesn’t fix everything” “All summer in a Day” by Ray Bradbury, is a fictional story about a girl named Margot, who struggles with bullying because she is different from everyone else. Her being from Earth, meanwhile everyone else has been from Venus their entire lives. Throughout the story, it shows Margot as a lonely girl that feels different from everyone else. Margot, being from Earth, knows that the sun is real, huge dandelion in the sky. Whilst nobody else has ever seen the sun, but…

One of my most favorite things to do is to watch the moon as it changes phases every so often. Anytime a full moon is supposed to happen, I always like to try and get the best picture of it that I possibly can. The moon has eight different phases. The new moon phase in which the moon's unlit side faces the Earth and is not visible unless a solar eclipse occurs. The waxing crescent phase where the moon seems to be less than one-half lit by direct sunlight. The portion of the moon being lit is…

Once upon a time there was a happy couple, Neptune and Uranus. The two were the happiest of planets, they did everything together. Uranus and Neptune were inseparable. The two had similar day lengths, so all the other planets called them perfect. Every morning they were the first thing each other saw. The two had met 2 billion years ago, and since then they have been together. Uranus, is an icy planet, that easily gets mad, Neptune is a smaller rocky planet, that was super sweet. Everyone in the…

On August 21, the first total Solar Eclipse since 1979 took place. It was called “Great America Eclipse.” The eclipse was seen by the whole United States and passed from the Pacific to the Atlantic. A solar eclipse happens when the moon passes between the sun and the earth. Not since February 1979 has a total eclipse been visible anywhere for the in the United States. The solar eclipse was seen within a narrow 70 kilometers and 110 kilometers wide going across fourteen states across the United…

Moon Inquiry Reflection I have a fairly clear understanding of the lunar phases and orbit. I know that, as the moon travels around the Earth, it is illuminated by the sun at different angles. The different angles of illumination are what cause the eight phases that we observe from Earth. I also know that the moon takes about thirty days to rotate the Earth and the rising and falling of the moon on the horizon follows a pattern. The moon activities impacted my learning in that I was more…

The moon is the brightest object in the night sky. On some nights, the moon looks like a shining circle of light. On others, it looks like a thin, silver fingernail. The moon does not make its own light. The light we see comes from the sun and bounces off the moon. If the moon and Earth were side by side, the moon would look like a tennis ball next to a basketball. It looks bigger than the stars and as large as the sun because it is closer to Earth than any other natural object in space. But…

When the shadow of one celestial body, the Moon or another planet in our solar system for example, moves in front of another’s shadow an eclipse takes place. There are several types of eclipses, which all depend on the shadow that is involved. There are three different types of shadows, the umbra, penumbra, and antumbra. Each type of shadow varies by its darkness and position within the full shadow. The umbra is the dark center, the antumbra is the light center, and the penumbra is the light…