Milky Way

Hello there. I will be talking about Olbers’ Paradox. In the year 1826, the German astronomer Heinrich Olbers’ proposed a controversial question about what makes the night sky dark if the universe contains an infinite number of bright stars (Newton 1). This question fascinates me because every celestial object that can be observed with our eyes, should have an important reason and role to play. The paradox about the night sky was also argued by Kepler as stated in his “Conversations with the…

The warping effect is caused when the black hole sucks in light. It is this that creates the strange warping effect that they have. Another way that it could be possible to spot a black hole is through radiation. Though they are invisible and have gravity fields so strong that they suck in light black holes still emit radiation. If had a device that detected radiation you could pick up the…

gets confused for a planet. This being due to the fact that Earth’s position can greatly muddle up how much of the observing star’s light is being dimmed from a planet or binary star (The Planetary Society). Currently, the most common and effective way to find exoplanets is Radial Velocity. This method involves taking advantage of the slight ellipse-shaped movement stars make due to the gravitational tug of the planets orbiting it. When the stars make this movement, their normal light spectrum…

the majority of mass in a galaxy. Although we cannot see dark matter we know that it is out there because we can see it effecting the motion of the stars in a galaxy and gravitational lensing. The first piece of evidence for dark matter is in the way we have observed galaxies moving. You would likely expect their behavior to replicate that of the Sun and the planets, with the velocity of planets being faster the closer they are to the Sun, and slower as we move out from the center of mass.…

ASTROPHYSICS Methods used to search for extrasolar planets Lucky Ruangsiri 24.02.2016 Extrasolar planets are planets that revolves another star apart from our solar system. The human race has found nearly 2000 confirmed extrasolar planets by the year 2016, and this has fuelled the search for extra-terrestrial life as we scour the universe for anything out there. How do we discover these planets that are light years away from the earth? An extrasolar planet detection technique is the…

One of the ancient culture from a solar system is about more then million years or even decades old. No one knows the walking delta culture because how old it is, and how far it is from our galaxy. It's more than at least more than a human life away. Its name is walking delta, one of the most rare scenes you can see, it looks like a ancient creature waking named the delta. They can choose to do anything once the soul is out of the body and mind(dead). One can choose when the right time…

The video we watched in lab, “Life and Death of a Star,” gave us incredible information regarding the life cycle of a star. There are billions of stars out there and in our galaxy, we have about four billion. Stars, which are ignited by the power of the atom, burning with light, heat and wrath, stars are anything but peaceful. They collide, devour each other, and explode in enormous supernovas. These “supernovas” are known to be the largest explosion in the universe. Throughout the video, we…

Purpose: To use Parallax and triangulation to measure the indirect distance between two points. Hypothesis: If a long distance is measured using triangulation then it will produce an accurate measurement. Materials: 1. Protractor 2. Ruler 3. Tape measure 4. Table or desk 5. Paper 6. Pencil 7. Masking tape Procedure: 1. Gather all of your materials 2. Clear off your table or desk 3. Place an object at one end of the desk (image A). Using masking tape, label this point C. 4. From the end…

There are 100 billion stars in our galaxy alone. Space is never ending filled with countless amounts of galaxies that we cannot even begin to understand. There are so many stars and so many lives. They have different sizes and shapes and they can turn into different things after they die based on their size and shape. The exact definition of a star is a fixed luminous point in the night sky that is a large, remote incandescent body like the sun, however, stars are much more than that. Stars…

The world that we live in today is only here because a brave man named Gabe Parker made a great sacrifice. Before man kind their was a planet called Onose. Onose was a planet that looked over and had control over every solar system. This planet had a population of 1 million people and every language was spoken. In addition, the planet of Onose was very peaceful. Their main goal for millions of years was to create other planets like Onose around the galaxy. The people of Onose discovered that…