Jupiter

One of which is when he found the four moons of Jupiter. This was his most famous discovery though, but was not his first observation. Galileo’s first observation was a supernova in the sky. He is also credited with making a better telescope than the one that was already in existence. The sad part is that…

Galileo Galilei’s contributions to science was great. After building his own telescope, he became the first person to study this stars. Galileo’s first discovery was that Jupiter had four satellites circling it. He noted that these satellites were much like our Earth’s moon. Another one of Galileo’s more famous discoveries was the moon’s surface. It was previously thought by the Aristotelians that the moon’s surface was smooth, but upon further observation Galileo discovered that the moon was…

The planets in the solar system are divided into terrestrial and jovian planets. They are different in their position, composition and other features. First of all, let us see what are the jovian and the terrestrial planets. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune are the jovian planets. Mercury, Venus and Earth are the terrestrial planets. One of the main differences that can be seen between terrestrial and jovian planets, is their surfaces. While the terrestrial planets are made of solid surfaces,…

the sky with it. He also studied the cosmos and stars. He also used his telescope to discover that the Earth’s solar system is heliocentric and that the Milky Way is made up of stars, and Venus has phases like the moon. In 1610, he discovered that Jupiter had mountains and its own moons. He also proved that objects fall at the same speed regardless of mass by dropping two objects from the Leaning Tower of Pisa. This supported the basis of Newton’s second law of…

Saturn got its name by a roman god of time and could be a reason why it is the slowest planet to orbit the sun. Saturn is the 6th planet from the sun between Jupiter and Uranus. Saturn is the second largest planet. Saturn revolves around the sun once every 29.4 Earth years, or 10,755.7 Earth days. Its poles are tilted 29 degrees relative to the orbit around the sun. Winds closer to Saturn’s equator blow east at 1,100 miles per hour, making Saturn the windiest planet in the solar system (of…

Plato once said, “Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world into another.” Obviously, astronomy has always been an interest to mankind. We look up into the night sky and feel an urge, something pulling us towards the stars. Many people have been influential in discoveries involving the stars and the planets beyond. From Galileo Galilei to Stephen Hawking, we have learned and discovered amazing things about the universe, and in recent discoveries we have wondered if…

Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the most distant that can be seen with the naked eye. Saturn is the second largest planet and is best known for its fabulous ring system that was first observed in 1610 by the astronomer Galileo Galilei. Saturn is a gas giant and is composed of similar gasses including hydrogen, helium and methane. Saturn can be seen with the naked eye. It is the fifth brightest object in the solar system.Saturn was known to the ancients, including the Babylonians…

in October 15, 1997 aboard a Titan IVB/Centaur. Cassini was outfitted with an array of instruments and Cameras and carried in side of it the Huygens probe, named after Titan’s discover. In July of 2004 after an interplanetary journey past Mars and Jupiter, the Cassini orbiter reached Saturn’s system. On Cassini’s flyby it took dozens of pictures of Titan and the Saturnian region. It recorded 10 images of a period of nine hours, documenting Titan’s Southern Vortex, Methane lakes and Atmospheric…

almost always included. Jupiter Ascending and Star Wars: The Force Awakens are two great sci-fi movies and by comparing and contrasting the main characters along with the science behind them it will show which movie best fits the science fiction genre. In Jupiter Ascending the main protagonist is a young woman named Jupiter Jones. Jupiter’s mother and father met in St. Petersburg, Russia and named her Jupiter after her father’s favorite planet. After her father dies Jupiter and her mother move…

around other stars, called exoplanets. An exoplanet, is any planet that orbits a star other than the Sun. Thousands have been discovered in the past twenty years, mostly with the NASA’s Kepler space Telescope, exoplanets of all sizes, from bigger than Jupiter to smaller than Earth. Just like the Solar System, exoplanets can orbit their…