Solar eclipse

Hubble’s official website in a table entitled Hubble at a Glance… 1. It cost about $1.5bn to launch alongside the shuttle Discovery on April 24th 1990. (Evans) 2. It is almost 44 feet in length and weighs around 24, 500 lbs. (Evans) 3. It has two 25 ft. solar panels that provide the power source for the telescope’s functions. (Evans) 4. It carries out its extraordinary work while orbiting the Earth at around 17,500 mph and making a complete revolution in 97 minutes. (Evans) B. The Hubble has…

technological innovations have been made; however, the initiation of solar energy usage is perhaps the most promising. For instance, as a direct result of the rapid depletion of nonrenewable resources, human populations will eventually have to turn to the one inexhaustible resource that can help preserve the human living style; that is, the sun. To demonstrate, a German architect named Andre Broessel, recently created a solar power generator in the shape of a spherical lens that is not only…

Discoveries about dark matter, high-speed gas clouds, and a small disk around the core are now leading scientists to a new understanding of how our galaxy formed and the way it works, by John S. Gallagher III, Rosemary Wyse, and Robert Benjamin. Our understanding of the Milky Way has come a long way from the time people wove a story about the milk of a goddess spilled across the heavens. About 400 years ago, Galileo Galilei aimed a primitive telescope toward that area and wrote that through it…

How to build a Man Cave garage Man caves give us the freedom to express ourselves. It gives us the personal space and creative bubble to succeed. Converting a garage into a man cave is certainly easier said than done. Here are some steps to help assist you with your project. Cleaning This is one of the most important parts of the process. To truly design and create the best man cave possible, it is necessary to clean everything first. If you want to get the most out of your garage then you need…

Mercury's surface is similar in appearance to the appearance of the Moon, showing plains and heavy cratering, indicating that it has been inactive for billions of years. Knowledge of Mercury's geology has been based only on the 1975 Mariner flyby and terrestrial observations, it is the least understood of the terrestrial planets. As data from messenger orbiter is processed, this knowledge will increase. For example, an unusual crater with radiating troughs has been discovered that scientists…

Lesson is for 2nd or 3rd graders Engage: The teacher will present the class with a fish tank full of water, and will begin to tilt it back and forth to make waves inside the tank. Students will be asked what is causing waves to form inside the tank? After the teacher has listened and responded to each student’s answer, the teacher will then ask multiple questions for class discussion before the lesson, such as what makes water tides? What is gravity? Does the moon or the sun affect the…

There are many benefits of investing in our space program. There are many reasons why the space program deserves us investing money in it. One of the many ways that investing in the space program is it could pay off in the long run. They are finding places that the human population could possibly move to in the future in case earth is in jeopardy in someway. America and other places all around the world are also finding out ways to mine asteroid incase earth runs out of resources. Those are…

A recent study on Mars’s geology causes a paradigm shift to researchers’ perspective of the red planet. Felsic rocks that thought to not exist on Mars are now identified. Overall, these findings alter the understanding of the geologic complexity and magmatic activity of Mars. Prior knowledge of Mars’s geology was rather simple; consisting of one type of rock formation in contrast to Earth’s diverse and complex geology. Felsic rocks such as granite, are common in subduction zones on Earth (Wray…

We researched Pluto’s orbit, physical properties, and history to give us a broad understanding of what Pluto is like and to see if a mission to Pluto would be feasible and beneficial to NASA. We found that Pluto has a unique orbit compared to other planets — it is both extremely elliptical and sometimes crosses Neptune's orbit. Pluto is also incredibly small and cold. It contains ice on it’s surface and was only discovered about 100 years ago. Because of what I learned, I believe that It would…

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…