was bad my tent was wet. Then i had to move it and it rained again and we didn't get as wet. But i like that cave the best it was very pretty. When i went to Texas i took us with all our stops 22 hours we drove the whole thing one the way back but not on the way there.I went to go see my brother he graduated the air force. I went with my whole family there was six plus my brother girl friend. We went on this 750 tower called Tower of Americas. He is going in to the honor guards We walked the…
eligible to become a stellar black hole, scientists can estimate that there are as many as ten million to one billion black holes in our galaxy alone. The stellar black holes are a lot more common because it is easier for them to form. One possible way for the creation of these massive black holes involves a series of chain collisions in a compact clusters of stars. This results in the buildup of extremely massive black holes, which then collapse to form medium sized black holes. These then…
The Life Cycle of Stars The life cycle of a star is an incredible, miraculous phenomenon that begins with just two elements: helium and hydrogen. The result is the all well known star that is seen twinkling in the night sky and also what lights up the day here on Earth. There are hundreds upon thousands of stars that take on many different sizes and colors. Depending on the size of the star from its birth, the star could take two paths at the end of its life: turn into a nebula leaving behind a…
years old; the age of our galaxy, the Milky Way, is 13.2 billion years old, with approximately…
Space is extraordinary! It is full of planets, stars, and many other things. There are several different hypotheses that were proposed on how the solar system was created. One of these hypotheses is the Nebular that was formulated by Pierre-Simon de Laplace in 1796. Many years later, in the 1900s, the Protoplanet hypothesis was proposed by Carl von Weizsäcker and Gerard Kuiper. Forest Moulton and Thomas Chamberlin proposed the Planetesimal hypothesis in 1905. The Nebular hypothesis starts…
Cosmos episode 13, “Unafraid of the dark”, begins by talking about the vast amount of scrolls and information that was kept in the library of Alexandria. Many of the books and scrolls were lost when the mob attacked and destroyed the library. This is shocking because of all the history of Ancient times that he's been lost due to the destruction of these books. Although we lost many discoveries, we as humans continue to learn new information about the universe. This begins the discovery of…
The Messier catalog began when Messier was searching in 1757 for a comet, whose return was predicted by Edmond Halley (Redd). Due to a mistake in Halley calculations, Messier was searching in the wrong patch of sky. In 1758, he discovered a fuzzy patch in the constellation of Taurus. After his repeat observation of the patch, and noticing that it had not moved. The nebula became his first entry in his catalog which he names Messier 1 or Crab Nebula. The second object in his catalog was M2, this…
The most famous celestial bond, except for the rings of Saturn, is the Ring Nebula or also known as M57. The Ring Nebula is 2,000 light years away and as seen on Earth the nebula looks like a donut-like ring wrapped around the middle of a football shaped cloud of glowing gas. It’s about one light year across and the glowing light the Ring Nebula produces is not coming from the planets but rather from the hot central star ionizes atoms in the gas forming intense ultraviolent light. As seen…
Whether it be riding to Citi Field to watch my Mets play on a warm May night, or sitting on the couch at home, watching baseball has always been my favorite pastime. And a few years ago, I was introduced to an element of baseball that involves another passion of mine, mathematics. The study of the utterly distinct, yet blissful marriage of baseball and mathematics is known as sabermetrics, and it has brought my love of baseball to a new level. “Sabermetricians,” attempt to analyze baseball from…
degrees Celsius, but the temperature drops to minus a hundred and forty-three degrees Celsius in the winter. Any liquid water would evaporate quickly due to the thin atmosphere although there are the polar ice caps made of water. Notably, Mars is home to the Olympus Mons, an extinct volcano, three times the height of Mount Everest. Two moons orbit Mars called Phobos and Deimos. We thought of Mars as the most habitable planet for humans until the discovery of…