Essays on Astronomy

Throughout this trimester, we have completed several activities to help us answer our driving question of, “which Planets would be the most habitable and how can we determine this. ” In order to organize our process of learning and how we can find these planets, …

Maryssa Buffano Miss Arnold Science – Current Astronomer Essay 4/12/2011 JMJ Dr. Debra Fischer – Astronomer An astronomer is an astrophysicist who studies stars, planets and galaxies. Astronomers use the laws of physics to investigate the matter and energy of celestial bodies. They then apply …

Serenity In Joss Hoedown’s “Serenity’ and “Firefly’, the human race used and polluted the Earth until it could no longer support life. In order to survive, humanity had to leave Earth- That-Was and find a new home. Taking place 500 years in the future, the …

More than thirty years after America’s first landed on the moon, the current President of the United States, George W. Bush, recently announced his plan of sending American astronauts back to the moon (BBC News). The President’s target is to accomplish this goal by the …

Astronomy can be defined as the study of all electromagnetic radiation from outer space. This definition encompasses the nature of the field, that the objects actually under study – the planets, stars, galaxies, et. al – are quite unreachable and such, information and knowledge we …

IntroductionWhen looking up at the night sky, preferably on an unclouded night away from the corpulence of light pollution, one sees stars. With the unaided eye, one can perhaps see a few thousand stars dazzling in the night. That does not mean there are necessarily …

Small tutorial groups for Individual discussions each eek (“Questions of the Week”) Welcome to Astronomy/Origins 2803 Your instructor: Dry. Christine Wilson – astrophysics, relativity, cosmology – Keep an individual Journal on the Avenue to learn site -Respond with your thoughts and questions (through the Avenue …

Unlike Earth, since there are no oceans to obscure the planet Mars, its topography is now better explored and known than that of Earth (Australian Geographic 2003). It has the largest known volcano in the Solar System, Olympus Mons, three times as high as Mt …

AbstractThis research paper will briefly introduce the reason behind the death of stars to set the foundation for supernovas, the concept of a supernova, and finally more specifically focus on what supernova remnants are. It will include research about their existence, how they behave, their …

Comparing a yellow star, a blue star, and a red star, we could determine Just from color that the hottest star was the 10. One. BLUE Rotation curves of spiral galaxies show that stars’ orbital speeds don’t drop off with distance from the galactic center …

Asteroids vs. Comets Spacecrafts have retrieved extraordinarily valuable information that has furthered the human race’s knowledge of what exists in outer space. However, spacecrafts and shuttles are extremely expensive to build and launch into space so they should be well taken care of. Sending a …

For centuries, man has always wondered if he is alone in the entire universe, questions like who built the pyramids in Egypt or the Stonehenge in England have always been in a question in the minds. The term extra terrestrial has always fascinated us, and …

Galaxies are an interesting topic of discussion. There is so much about our universe that we have still yet to uncover. There are a number of galaxies that we can see with the use of modern technology but we have yet to fully investigate what …

The wreckage of the ship and the remains of her seven crew members were strewn all across Texas and parts of Louisiana. Even the most staunch NASA believers contemplated their support for the agency as fire rained from the sky. It had been nearly 17 …

ConceptionThe idea of space-based observation had been floating around in the heads of many astronomers in the early 1900s. One of those astronomers was Lyman Spitzer, who wrote the paper Astronomical advantages of an extraterrestrial observatory. In this paper he envisioned telescope 500 miles above …

The movie I decided to watch was Interstellar by the famous director Christopher Nolan. I personally believe that this is one of the best-directed movies in the 20th century. Interstellar is a great movie to research about ethical dilemmas. There are plenty of ethical dilemmas …

When you look up into the sky you see millions of bright shinnying stars. Stars are similar to people, they are born, live their lives and then die. Stars are formed in clouds of dust and gas called nebula. Particles inside the nebula collide and …

Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution Mission (MAVEN) The red planet Mars has long been a cultural and scientific fascination. People have pondered for decades over the biological potential of the planet and its past. Geological features on Mars resembling dry riverbeds, and the discovery of …

Being asked most people would name the twelve constellations of the zodiac and some more they have heard of or even seen (most common is surely the Big Dipper, though it is not a constellation but an asterism). In total there are 88 constellations, which …

The Cold War saw an opposition between the world’s two incredible forces: the democratic, capitalist United States, and the communist Soviet Union. Both the U.S. and Soviet Union would fight to have the best technology in space. As World War II came to an end, …

Ittner and Kaplan (1990) introduced the case of Texas Instruments describing the company’s main business was to produce programmable controllers for the industrial automation and factory control fields. Besides, Texas Instrument’s Industrial Systems Division (ISD) processed a state-of-the-art facility for assembling pin-in-hole and surface mount …

Mars often referred to as the Red Planet, has long been a subject of fascination; speculation about the existence of “Martians” was widespread early in the twentieth century; for example, issues of Scientific American in 1920 described possible communication with Mars using search lights and …

In my presentation I will tell you about the first cosmonaut. The purpose of this presentation to know more about the life of Yuri Gagarin and his exploits. Also explains how Gagarin prepared to fly into space, the process of this important event and what …

AbstractTo fully understand what a nebula is and the useful function that they provide you must first understand the structure and build of the object. The research done in this essay takes you through all the steps starting with the foundational concept of the chemical …

Jeremy Curtis is an engineer and business development manager for space science at the Rutherford Appleton laboratory (RAL) in Oxfordshire. His job includes on the joint European telescope for X-ray astronomy (JET-X), due to have been launched in 1999 on the Russian Spectrum-X spacecraft. He …

The history of science is littered with unsung heroes whose contributions were sometimes obscured by contemporary developments or by existing social conventions. Maria Winkelmann, a distinguished German astronomer of the late 17th and early 18th centuries, is one such person. Winkelmann’s determination and brilliance built …

Samir Okasha showed in his book, “Philosophy of Science: A very short introduction”, what makes science a distinct body of knowledge which make use of “observations, experiments and theory-constructions” as can be reflected on the works of `De Revolutionibus` by Nicholaus Copernicus and `Letter to …

Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) is a time system originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London, which later became adopted as a global time standard. It is arguably the same as Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) and when this is viewed …

Everyone has some ambition or the other. As children we get fascinated by several things every now and then and aspire to achieve them when we grow old. Some dreams and aspirations remain intact even as we grow and we work hard to achieve them. …

Climate change is the historical change in the pattern of average seasonal conditions. These changes are generally studied by dividing the history of the Earth over long periods. This change in climatic conditions can also be natural and the result of human activities. Population growth, …