Solar cycle

This report has two major parts of the main body: the atmosphere of Pluto and surface of Pluto. For atmosphere part, I discussed its unusual extended range, composition, and the escape of atmospheric atoms. Atoms of tholins in the atmosphere can affect both the colour of haze and the ground of Pluto. The second part contains the geological features on Pluto, including two distinctive regions: Sputnik Platinum and Tombaugh Regio. In this part, further interactions of the atmosphere and geological…

History is the recording of past events in time. The record keeping of our past is the reason we have what we have today; everything from government and military ideas all the way down to tradition and religion. If it was not for people keeping a record of everything that happened, whether it be good or bad, it is what helped shape the human race and evolve us into what we have become today. Although every group of people has their own structure and belief systems, the reason behind why they are…

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…

Modeling Periodic Phenomena: The Orbit of Mars Introduction Billions of years old, Mars is the 4th planet from the sun in our solar system and the last of the terrestrial planets before the asteroid belt. The planet neighbors Earth and has seen a plethora of exploration craft from our planet. Mars orbits around the Sun on an ellipse, as dictated by Kepler’s laws (which state that all orbits are ellipses). Mars’ elliptical shape is a lot less circular than Earth, due to its high orbital…

Greece which explained the universe structure where Earth is at the orbital centre of all celestial bodies. In the 4th century BC, Plato and Aristotle published studies based on geocentrism and believed that Earth was stationary at the centre of the solar system, and stars and planets rotated around the Earth on concentric spheres arranged in the order: Moon, Sun, Venus, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and the fixed stars were located on the celestial sphere aligned with the north and south pole…

However, the surface facing away from us, sometimes referred to as the “dark side” of the Moon, has mostly a cratered surface. When we look at the moon, we see its phases. We see the different phases because of the Moon's position around Earth. This cycle has a 29 & 1/2 day orbit; in which, we see 8 different phases: Waxing Crescent, First Quarter, Waxing Gibbous, Full Moon, Waning Gibbous, Third Quarter, Waning Crescent, and New Moon. When the Moon looks like it's increasing, we say it’s…

The first destination will be to Mars. Mars is the second planet after Mercury in the solar system, but in terms of the sun it is the fourth planet nearest to it. The distance between Earth and Mars is maximum 0.00000102529 and minimum 0.00000062363 light years. It is unknown who the first person discovered Mars. In 1659, an astronomer named Christian Huygens discovered the Syrtis Major on the surface of Mars. Moreover, another astronomer named Giovanni Schiaparellin in 1877 discovered various…

is any planet that orbits a star not within our solar system. The first real discovery of an exoplanet was made in 1995 by the Swiss team of Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz of Geneva. The planet that they discovered was at least half the mass of Jupiter and smaller in size. NASA has confirmed 1746 exoplanets exist and there is surely more to be discovered. The Kepler mission was too find and statistically characterizes planets outside of our solar system. This report will explain the ways that…

objects that engulf our skies have captured the interests of this world’s inhabitants, from the simplest of tribesmen to city dwelling scholars and philosophers alike. As early as 32,000 years ago, humans are believed to have been tracking cosmic cycles like our Moon’s phases (Burnham, Dyer & Kanpipe 22). These observations led to globally recognized concepts in our civilization such as time, the use of calendars and the ability to predict seasonal changes. Before the massive leap in progress…

A star is known as “a fixed luminous point in the night sky that is a large, remote incandescent body like the sun” (Oxford Dictionary). The life cycle of a star is a very complex and magnificent process. Every star starts out as a nebula and have their own physical features. They all evolve and turn into something beautiful. Every star's physical features vary. Their diameters can range from 450 times smaller to 1,000 times larger than the sun. Temperatures expand from 3,000 degrees Celsius to…