Chapter 1: Asterisms Vs Constellations. One Of The Things

In today's society, constellations are known as a group of stars that when viewed from our planet earth, form a pattern that we can see at night with the unaided eye. There are also groups of constellation families; such as the Ursa major family, the Perusues Family, the Hercules Family, the Orion Family, the Bayer Group, the Heavenly Waters, the La Caille Family and finally the most known constellation group; the Zodiacal Family. The zodiacal family consists of the zodiac constellations signs. These signs usually describe your personality and who you are as a family. The constellation, Leo, is my zodiac sign, and in my particular interest for it depicts who I am. The Leo constellation is the twelfth largest constellation in the night sky and

Questions like how life exists beyond our solar system or under Jupiter’s icy crust have been theorized as the discoveries of Jupiter continue. According to the article, water vapor has observed on one of Jupiter’s moon, Europa. A probe called “Juice” will be launched in 2022 to study Jupiter and its moons, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto. The mission would also determine if there are oceans on Jupiter, including how deep they are. However, there are some challenges Juice will have to face such as the ability to generate enough energy, the materials it is made out of that would have to withstand the forces of deceleration, and to shield itself from the intense magnetic field around Jupiter. Therefore, when Juice is completely built and launched,

Planet Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the fifth largest of the planets of the Solar System. Earth’s surface is 71 percent water and is the only astronomical planet currently known where life exists. Earth is our home planet. Scientist and astronomers have studied our planet for Centuries and they have discovered much about our planet. Scientist have gained so much more knowledge of our Solar System in the last half-century after the NASA launched the first spacecraft and travel beyond Earth’s atmosphere has opened up to those who wish to explore. In the following paragraphs, we will discuss Earth and the

On Earth we have one moon to look at during the night. Can you imagine looking at 50 or 60 moons at night? If we lived on Jupiter, that’s what we would see! Jupiter has 50 definite moons. There are 17 moons scientists are still examining to make sure that they are moons. Some are smaller than 1.5 miles in diameter! Jupiter’s four largest moons, and four first discovered, are known as the Galilean moons, named after their discoverer Galileo Galilee in 1610.

Galileo spacecraft first discovered the four largest moon of Jupiter, called Io, Europa, Ganymede and Ganymede and Callisto. Ganymede is the largest moon in the Solar System Atmosphere And Planetary Composition: Temperature Range: The cloud-tops average 120 K=153*C=-244*F. Atmosphere: Jupiter is a gaseous planet; it does not have a solid surface like the Earth does (but probably has a solid, rocky core 10 to 15 times the mass of the Earth). When we look at Jupiter, we are seeing icy clouds of gases moving at high speeds in the atmosphere. Jupiter's atmosphere is composed of about 90% hydrogen and 10% helium.

One of four moons that contain basic elements of liquid, heat and nutrients which could potentially be habitable.

Since Europa is Jupiter’s moon, it is orbiting Jupiter. Europa is made out of silicate rock and is grooved out with cracks and streaks. The crust of this moon is frozen which is covered in ice. The density is 3.01 g/cm3 which would

Phoebe. It orbits outside of Saturn, and has a dark surface and a significant number of

In Orson Scott card’s book, Ender's’ game, The novel takes place in a futuristic world where aliens attempted to take over the earth and a young boy named Ender is chosen to lead earth's army to victory. So far mars has been the most significant candidate for extraterrestrial life in our solar system. For a planet to have a suitable environment for life it must have liquid water, oxygen, carbon, atmosphere, heat/warmth, nutrients/food. One of the four moons that orbited Jupiter named Europa was recently expected to have the essentials for life. The moon Europa has strong tidal heat which could keep water in liquid form beneath its layer of ice. Although life on Europa is a small chance there's is one more option which is the largest moon that

Jupiter has about sixty-seven known moons that are named, multiple other moons have been found but yet to be named. The largest moon of Jupiter is Ganymede, it is the largest moon in the solar system and larger than the planet Mercury. The moon Callisto is covered with craters, Lo has many volcanoes on it and Europa is covered in water ice.

There are a lot of moon but the four main ones or biggest ones are Io, Callisto, Europa, and Ganymede. Io is very hot and has a lot of volcanos and lava. All of the volcanos cause the surface of Io to be covered in sulfur which is ash from the volcanoes. Jupiter's gravitational pull is so strong that it causes Io’s solid surface to to rise and drop, like a wave, from 300-100 feet at a time! Europa’s surface is the opposite. It has ice and is might be all water. It is even thought to have twice as much water as earth. Europa is thought to actually have life under the ice but no one has ever been there to see. Callisto is very heavily cratered. It is thought to be one of the first of Jupiter's moons. It is just like our moon but bigger. There isn't much of anything out of the ordinary about it. Ganymede is very crazy because it has its own gravitational pull unlike moons. It almost fell for a dwarf planet if it didn't orbit Jupiter. This makes it the largest moon in our solar system.

Europa, is the smallest of the four Galilean moons orbiting Jupiter, and the sixth-closest to the planet. With its icy crust and temperatures never rising more than minus 220 C (370 F). life on this moon seems impossible, but this icy rock may surprise you. Astronomers believe that there is an ocean underneath the ice that might be similar to Earth’s.

Right alongside the fifth and largest planet in our solar system, Jupiter, orbits a moon only about the same size as Earth’s moon. On this moon, is an icy surface that scientists are trying to uncover. Due to the presence of what they believe to be water, there is the possibility of life on this moon named Europa.

Europa is the sixth of Jupiter's moons and the fourth largest. Europa is named after a Phoenician princess who was abducted by Zeus and taken to the island of Crete to be his lover. Europa was discovered by Galileo Galilei and possibly Simon Marius in 1610 and is one of the four Galilean satellites. The others being: Io, Ganymede, and Callisto. Europa is very different from the other moons of Jupiter. Instead of a rocky, cratered surface like Callisto and Ganymede, it instead has a smooth outer surface of cracked ice. There are very few sign of craters on Europa. In fact, only three large craters have been found. This indicates that Europa's surface is very young and active. In photographs sent back by orbiters, the surface resembles sea ice on Earth. Astronomers believe that beneath this layer of ice may exist an ocean, kept liquid by the moon's internal heat. This liquid ocean could be as much as 30 miles deep. The existence of deep ocean vents on the ocean floor on Earth have led some scientists to speculate that there could be a possibility of life on Europa. Around these deep sea vents on Earth are life forms that do not need sunlight to survive. They instead feed on bacteria that get their nutrients from chemicals seeping up from the ocean floor. This process is known as chemosynthesis. Scientists believe that similar life forms could evolve on Europa if a liquid ocean does indeed exist beneath its frozen surface.

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