Jealousy Is Not the Best Policy In Ray Bradbury’s short story All Summer in a Day there is a girl named Margot, and she is from Earth, her classmates on the other hand, they are from Venus. In the story, Margot's classmates are jealous of her. First, the students are wondering if they will ever see the sun again, because they are on Venus, and on Venus it rains, non-stop, for seven years, but once seven years is done, all the students have “All Summer in a Day, however to Margot this is not a…
have distinguished various sub-genres, including etiological treatises, Books of the Sky, and Books of the Netherworld. The present thesis concerns those compositions that belong to the Netherworld group, which focus on the nocturnal aspect of the solar journey, which is described…
smallest Planet in the solar system and the ninth Planet from the sun, little after Pluto was recategorized From a planet to a Dwarf Planet, but still smaller than other Dwarf Planets meaning that It can not clear any objects out of its path. Dwarf Planet Pluto was discovered to have five moons Hydra, Kerberos, Nix, Styx, and Charon the largest moon.…
The constellation is easy to find in the sky because it is located near the centre of the Milky Way. It contains a number of notable stars and deep sky objects, which makes it easier to find. The three main stars it contains are Antares, Shaula, and In Greek mythology, the constellation Scorpius was identified with the scorpion that killed Orion, the mythical hunter. The two constellations lie opposite each other in the sky, and Orion is said to be fleeing from the scorpion as it sets just as…
earths inside. Thermal images show it reaches some 60 miles down into the planet’s atmosphere. The cause remains uncertain. As Saturn is the sixth planet, it is said to be cold. It is about 886,700,000 miles from the sun, the main source of heat in our solar system. Saturn is also the second largest planet, second to Jupiter. Saturn is so big it’s the equivalent of 764 earths! It takes 29 Earth years for Saturn to orbit the sun. Saturn is a tannish-beige color. The websites used for this report…
considered an ice giant. The atmosphere of Uranus the ice giant is made up of mostly helium and hydrogen, but methane gives it its blue-green color. Seventy-four earth years is equivalent to one year on Uranus. One of the largest planets in our solar system, Uranus has a diameter of 50,652 km. The greater size makes it 4 times wider than earth. In comparison, the earth is a nickel and Uranus is a tennis ball. Uranus is on average 19.8 Astronomical units away from the sun. An astronomical…
John Kovac It’s amazing realizing where I’m sitting. Here I am right beside famous scientist John Kovac here in Wolbach Library at Harvard University. I’m astonished to see this magnificent library and I can feel the knowledge surrounding me. What’s even more impressive is that this library is mainly focused on astrophysics. As we are about to begin the interview John Kovac prepares himself my drinking a bottle of water and laying out a couple of awards he has won. What is your career? Well,…
planets, three of them suitable for life. If humans could get to this galaxy which is only 39 light years away, it could be a huge necessity. Most people think we should invest time and money going to Mars, to the moon, and then other planets in our solar system. This could be good, but why waste time and money doing this when we know there…
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…
that has lava on it,” said Sun. “Well that's the newborn, EARTH!” The End Interesting facts about the sun The sun is a huge ball of hot, glowing gas. The sun is about 333,000 TIMES the size of earth. 99.8% of our solar system light and heat comes from the sun. The average heat and light sources travel to about 92.96 miles, the sun's travels to about 149.6 times the average of the light source. About the Author Coleton…