Planet

Students will compare and contrast the physical attributes of stars, star patterns, and planets. a. Recognize the physical attributes of stars in the night sky such as number, size, color and patterns. b. Compare the similarities and differences of planets to the stars in appearance, position, and number in the night sky. c. Explain why the pattern of stars in a constellation stays the same, but a planet can be seen in different locations at different times. d.…

NASA has recently discovered a new planet Yelger in the Andromeda Galaxy. It is the right distance from the sun to support life. It is the same size and mass as Earth. It takes 700 Earth days to revolve around the sun(360 on Earth), and takes 20 Earth hours to rotate around its axis(24 on Earth). It’s temperatures are about the same as on Earth, and has a tilt of 45º. It’s moon is the same distance away from Earth but it twice the mass and size. Because Yelger takes 20 hours to rotate on it’s…

Mars harboured long-lasting lakes and water streams about 3.8 to 3.3 billion years ago, boosting the odds that life may have once existed on the Red Planet, scientists, including one of Indian-origin, have found. Using data from the Curiosity rover, NASA's Mars Science Laboratory/Curiosity team has determined that, long ago, water helped deposit sediment into Gale Crater, where the rover landed more than three years ago. The sediment deposited as layers that formed the foundation for Mount…

turned into a motion picture that was released on October 2, 2015, which stars Academy Award winning actor Matt Damon as the main character, Mark Watney. The Martian is about six scientists who travel to Mars aboard a NASA spacecraft to check the planet and it characteristics. While they are there collecting dust, taking pictures, and recording data everything seems to be fine; then tragedy strikes. Scientist Mark Watney is going to have to fight for his life if he wants to make it home. The…

When Ptolemy describes the mathematical model in Almagest, he does not fundamentally distinguish between the planets in any way, but in the description of equatoria, a practical device able to predict and simulate the future motion of the planetary system, he omits the celestial bodies with a small inclination. In all likelihood, this was a practical consideration…

Scientists have discovered ancient grains. No, not the quinoa and spelt you'll find in Whole Foods, but ancient grains with explosive origins from Space. By extracting dust grains from meteorites, scientists were able to find out their history and how they came to Earth. STARS SPEWED OUT PRESOLAR GRAINS ALL OVER EARTH As one may assume, presolar grains are older than the sun. They were thrown up by the stars in the universe hundreds of millions of years ago. Way before Earth had a solar system…

Science is a field that prides itself on being open-minded. As a science, the field of space science additionally endeavors to achieve this objective. Pretty much as teenagers pursue crazes today, be it design or the most recent heart-throb, space science too has tirelessly taken after patterns that were coherently imperfect. Much like today's prevailing fashions, these thoughts appear to be senseless in knowledge of the past. However, notwithstanding realizing that such prevailing fashions…

stars. Also, Ptolemy and Copernicus both believed the orbits of the planets were circular, but they were actually elliptical. While the Ptolemy’s geocentric model was really good at predicting planetary positioning, it wasn't accurate. Copernicus’s model explained the true motions of planets, using the motion of the Earth around the sun as a common aspect or cause while Ptolemy’s posed numerous separate causes to the motion of each planet due to him having to replicate Earth’s motion in relation…

which is a part of Mars Exploration Program and was developed by NASA. This project was contracted out to Lockheed Martin, with an expected cost for the entire mission of US $297 million. Mars Odyssey observe and mapping the Martian surface at of the planet, and visible wavelengths to determine…

Since they are so many interesting things to see and learn about the universe, astronomers actually go into become specialists in their field work. They mainly focus on star-forming, galaxies, planet , they even try to search for life on other planets. Now the history of astronomy goes way back to the Babylonians (1600 B.C.). They believed that the heavens had the power over all of earth 's existence. Astronomy has one of the most earliest written records of Abstromnimacal…