The autumn constellations Andromeda and Perseus, along with Cetus, Pegasus, Cassiopeia and Cepheus, are richly intertwined in mythology, but are vastly diverse in the objects they present to astronomers. While Perseus lies along the Milky Way, and offers many dazzling open star clusters and diffuse nebulae, Andromeda lies away from our galaxy's plane, and introduces us to the inhabitants of intergalactic space. Some of the finest celestial objects reside in these constellations, and it is well worth braving cool autumn nights to observe them. Truly one of the showpieces of the northern sky is the Andromeda Galaxy, also known as Messier 31, M31 or NGC 224. The galaxy was known as the "little cloud" to the Persian astronomer Abd-al-Rahman Al-Sufi,
The Andromeda Strain is a book about 4 men trying to find a cure for the Andromeda strain and prevent an outbreak. The book starts in the town of Piedmont, Arizona where the Scoop VII satellite crash landed carrying unknown bacteria collected from the upper atmosphere. The rest of the book took place in a secret government facility in Flat Rock Nevada. The facility has 4 levels. To go down to the next levels the characters had to be tested and decontaminated before they can go down. The main characters spend most of their time at the bottom of the facility where they do all of their research to eliminate the Andromeda Strain. Before Dr. Stone and Dr. Burton traveled to piedmont to collect the satellite and they discovered that two people were still alive. The two people still alive were a baby and Peter Jackson. Dr. Stone then took both of them to the facility in Nevada.
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I have decided to speak of Andromeda, which has an interesting history for my taste and has many interesting facts, for example "Pegaso" shares with the contelacion star Cassiopeia and Cepheus, Kings of Ethiopia were the parents of Andromeda. The Queen Cassiopeia boasted of the beauty of his daughter, and likened it to the Nereids, daughters of the God of the sea Poseidon. Sea goddesses, in response to this affront, Poseidon demanded revenge and it was like this sent a sea monster (Cetus) to destroy the coasts of the country. Cepheus went to the Oracle of Zeus who advised him as the only way to calm the anger of the gods and get rid of the monster was sacrificing his daughter Andromeda attaching it to a rock on the cliff so that the Monster
The constellation Sagittarius, also known as 'The Archer' in Latin, is fascinating. Research done on this cluster of stars shows that it was documented in the second century by a Greek astronomer named Ptolemy. Sagittarius is the fifteenth largest constellation overall, it occupies eight hundred sixty-seven square degrees and contains the most stars with known planets. This cluster of stars is in the center of the Milky Way galaxy. The brightest stars in the constellation come together to form a pattern of stars called the Teapot. The myth behind the stars is what lead me to my ultimate decision to choose Sagittarius.
Going back and thinking about the myths and stories I learned this semester I began to see a pattern between a couple of them that caught my eye. In multiple myths that I learned about, I began to realize this theme of being abandoned and then being saved. There have been numerous myths based on this idea where either a man or female is in trouble and is dropped off somewhere and left to face death or some sort of punishment. Almost always though, right before that could happen somebody usually always a god, swoops in and saves them. It is as though these myths are portraying the hero complex and showing that there is always a knight in shining armor waiting to save the person in distress.
My favorite constellation would be the Cassiopeia. It is one of the most recognizable constellations in the northern sky during night time in fall and early winter. It has a W shape formed by five bright stars. It is part of the 48 constellations written in Ptolemy's work in the 2nd-century and still part of the 88 modern constellations today.
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Aly is always stargazing. She has a huge telescope that she uses to try to discover a comet that she can name. Her favourite time to be stargazing is during the eclipse. The land around her house has a clear view of the amazing experience. Though I don’t live in the best area to see space, I have always enjoyed stargazing and have several books on the stars and constellations. Even though the area isn’t great, you can still see extraordinary galaxies and bright planets. It’s one of my favourite things.
I chose the Orion constellation because after doing some research, I found that the history of this constellation was very interesting. The Orion constellation looks like a man holding a weapon and a dead lion, so it was named after a hunter in Greek mythology. The Orion is located on the celestial equator and it consists of seven stars known as Betelgeuse, Rigel, Bellatrix, Mintaka, Alnilam, Alnitak, and Saiph, but it's brightest stars are Rigel and Betelgeuse. This constellation is most visible between January and March at evening time and can be seen all across the world.
Mass Effect: Andromeda is a magnificently glitchy game. I have seen a crewmate go through osmosis while talking to him, I've fought an alien dinosaur that suddenly stopped moving its body (but still glided along the jungle floor and attacked me), and, through cunning manipulation of my space-car's six wheel drive and boost functions, have successfully driven up a vertical cliff face (though arguably that's a feature, not a bug). Of course, there are weirder visual flaws, like most of a character's face not moving while they speak or the world being so big that the game forgets to load the people I have to talk to to complete my quest. It’s frustrating sometimes – and downright baffling other times
A binary star is a system consists of two stars orbiting around their common center of mass which discovered by Sir William Herschel in 1802. We can classify binary systems into four types by method of observation. This four types are visual binary, spectroscopy binary, astrometric binary and eclipsing binary. In this research, we focus on an eclipsing binary. The star Algol in the constellation of Perseus is a famous eclipsing binary and is a target for amateur astronomers. We study eclipsing binaries by monitoring their light curves, the changes in brightness with time. When the smaller, dimmer star passes in front of the brighter star, there is a primary eclipse. When the dimmer star passes behind the bright star there is a secondary eclipse.
The sky has been a major attraction for astronomers, scientist, and many civilizations of the past hundreds of years. What are Constellations? Why are they so important? The science of finding out what all these amazing stars in the sky first begin when ancient civilizations begin seeing patterns, which they shaped out a variety of images while stargazing has had different meanings for different cultures, this can be seen with the Big Dipper. The topics discussed will include a summary of the history of how the constellations came to be, also a brief overview of how the IAU came about, and recent findings made by the IAU in the past 10 years.
Cassiopeia is a constellation located in the northern sky. It is made up of five stars which, when in upper culmination, appears in a 'M' shape, whereas in lower culmination, it appears as a 'W'. It is the varying appearance of the constellation which appeals to me. It is bordered by Andromeda to the South, Perseus to the South East and to the north is Cepheus, opposite Cassiopeia is the Big Dipper. Due to its location lying in rich Milky Way star fields, it contains many deep sky subjects such as open clusters and nebulae.
The Orion Nebula contains one of the brightest star clusters in the night sky. With a magnitude of 4, this nebula is easily visible from the Northern Hemisphere during the winter months. It is surprising, therefore, that this region was not documented until 1610 by a French lawyer named Nicholas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc. On March 4, 1769, Charles Messier inducted the Orion Nebula, M42, into his list of stellar objects. Then, in 1771, Messier released his list of objects for its first publication in Memoires de l'Academie.1
Earth’s galaxy, the Milky Way consists of more than 100 billion stars, many of which can be interpreted by human visual perception, while other can only be observed with the aid of a magnifying or light-collecting optical device such as a telescope. The stars are organized into various groupings according to their visible arrangement as observed in earth’s atmosphere. Human beings from cultures of eras bygone such as the Greeks, Romans, and Babylonians, and bestowed most, if not all of the titles upon the constellations as we know them today. Earth’s atmosphere comprises eighty-eight constellations, of which I have chosen the following five to discuss for my laboratory report: Andromeda, Big Dipper, Cassiopeia, Cepheus, and Draco