Solar System

The Gift of Interstellar Travel For centuries humans have lived on earth and growing expanding and claiming this giant space rock a home, but as time goes on planet earth is becoming not enough to sustain mankind’s way of living. Now with the technological advantages of the 21st centuries there is an answer to this problem and it is interstellar travel. With this one form of research mankind can thrive and exist beyond the stars. The earth simply cannot shelter the ever-growing human race,…

Within The Character of Physical Law, Dr. Feynman details the characteristics of nature. He describes nature as being incredibly complex, pointing to examples such as the orbits of the planets around the sun and tidal movement. Yet, he is able to describe nature as being simple. For a potential reader this can be confusing, as something cannot simultaneously be simple and complex. It is through the understanding and the application of logic that Feynman connects simple ideas to larger and more…

In the short story “All Summer in a Day,” by Ray Bradbury tells the story of a young girl living on Venus who is determined the sun will come. On Venus, it has done nothing but rain for the past seven years and the children have lost all hope, except Margot. Margot heard the prediction from a scientist that the sun would come out that day, but none of her classmates believed her and put her in a closet. After she was put in a closet, there was a blast from outside and the sun appear. One main…

There are many mysteries left by our predecessors, one of them is Stonehenge. There are many theories as to why Stonehenge was built but only some of them are actually believable. Stonehenge is one of England’s most puzzling structures, built on Salisbury plains in England; it has historians, researchers, Scientists and archaeologists very unsure of its actual purpose. Pearson (2012) think’s Stonehenge would have been built around 3100 BC and finished around 1100 BC in three stages; these dates…

Astronomy - Discovery of Planet Uranus Georgian Star is the name Sir William Herschel wanted for his astronomical finding, discovered on 13 March 1781. The name didn’t stick, granted that King George III loved it. William Herschel’s career was music. He wrote several symphonies, concertos, and sonatas. His sister became his signature soprano. They were famous in Bath England. Nevertheless, this musically talented man had many interests, astronomy was one of them. His musical career provided…

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…

Shaula is an Arabic word that mean the stinger, as it the star that makes up the stinger on the constellation along with Lesath. Shaula is a hot subgiant star, but the star seems to be more of a hydrogen fusing dwarf. The estimated age of the star system is about 10-13 million years, and the surface temperature is 23,000. Its apparent magnitude of 1.62 makes it one of the 25 brightest stars in the sky and it’s estimated positon is 17h33.7m, Dec. - 37°06−. Its distance from the earth is about 300…

Not only can similarities be found between architectural structures throughout history, but there is also a correspondence between some pyramids and constellations. For example, the three Pyramids of Giza align perfectly with the three stars of Orion’s belt. Other interesting facts about the Pyramids of Giza include the size of the pyramids, the positions of the pyramids, and the weight of the stones. It was determined that the size the Pyramid of Giza corresponds almost perfectly with the…

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,…

One disaster could kill us all. In order to ensure that the human race will live on and prosper, Mars needs to be colonized. Mars will be colonized because of the fact that we need a backup because of possible disasters ,the amount of mining for valuable items would help the economy, and the location of mars and the similarities Mars has to Earth. Some peoples views on moving to Mars are not good. One opposing view is that the world is already in debt and by traveling to Mars and building all…