A constellation is simply a recognisable patterned formed by stars in the sky. There are different names dedicated to the different stars in a constellation. The brightest of them all is the Alpha star, the next brightest is the Beta star. The magnitude or brightness of the stars is determined by its mass and depends of the amount of energy it radiates. Stars also appear brighter the closer they are to Earth. The apparent magnitude of a star is its measure of brightness viewed from Earth. The scale goes from -10 (very bright) to +10 (very dim). The absolute Magnitude of a star is its actual brightness (measured from a set distance). The absolute magnitude of a massive star such as Rigel is -6.8 (bright), but it has an apparent magnitude of
In life humans want to try to find peace with one another, but there is always that one person who doesn’t want to cooperate and listen. There are human that are living a life immaturely and can’t accept equality because of their ignorance and pride, this is why there is no peace in this world. Usually there is a majority of people who never think twice about someone’s feelings or about empathy. In the short story “Out of All Them Bright Stars”, by Nancy Kress, she illustrates about a blue alien name John who enters into a restaurant to dine-in, and is presenting himself appropriately and politely to Sally, but then comes barging out of the kitchen name Charlie, who dislikes him and acts disrespectful to him because of the way he looks. He
I choose to discuss the constellation Draco, or "The Dragon." I choose this constellation because a dragon is perhaps my most beloved and favorite creature of all time, magical or not. This constellation was also featured in my favorite movie of all time, "Dragonheart." Draco was just one of the constellations listed by Ptolemy, a 2nd century astronomer and it is circumpolar, or never setting. Draco consists of fourteen main stars, with its brightest star being y Dra. The constellations lies near Hercules and Ursa Major, in the North.
Rigel is the brightest star in the constellation Orion and the seventh brightest star in the night sky. Around 12,000 times as luminous as the Sun. Rigel is most visible in winter evenings in the northern hemisphere and summer in the southern. The distance from Earth is about 860 light year. It is around 78 times larger than the Sun, the radius is approximately 54,250,000 km. Surface temperature is approximately 11,000 K.
The Constellation I will be talking about today is Orion, Commonly known as The Hunter. Orion's is a hunter from Greek Mythology and is one of the most recognizable constellations. Orion has some of the brightest stars(some examples are Betelgeuse and Rigel) and is one of the prettiest winter constellations in my opinion.
The constellation Leo is a zodiac constellation that is one of the early constellations. It was cataloged by astronomer Ptolemy in the 2nd century, and is considered one of the original 48. (1) Leo has been known by many names in many cultures, Ser, Shir, Artan, Aryo, Arye, and Simha, all meaning lion. (2)
Point of view is a perspective, there are three types points of view, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd person. Number the Stars is 3rd person limited, and omniscient, this means that the narrator has total control over every aspect of one character, and can only sense how the other characters are feeling. The character that the book puts the most focus on is Annemarie, she is from the Johanson family. The Johansons helped bring Many Jewish families to safety in the book. In Mr. Sergio Moirano interview was in 1st person, he spoke of his personal experiences during the war. Sergio told about his memories, about how he was shot in the arm, and how terrified he was every second of the day. Number the Stars and Mr. Sergio Moirano interview are quite similar in
I chose the constellation Cassiopeia because it is a constellation that I already heard about but I did not know its history. So, it is a constellation, discover by Ptolemy, which are makes up of 5 main stars. These stars have the form of a "W" or a "M" depending of its position.
Have you ever had one of those days where you’d take a nice walk in the night time and just gaze into the night sky, and when you look up you see a bunch of beautiful stars. Well, if you have taken a closer look you may have noticed that the stars have patterns that create images called constellations. Constellations are a group of stars that are connected together to represent mythological images of animals and objects from the past that is located in the celestial sphere 1, 3. They were mainly discovered by the early people, primarily used as references to coordinate directions, measure time, predict farming seasons, and for religious studies3. According to the International Astronomical Union, there are 88 constellations in the sky, but
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.
Throughout the course of our existence, humans have looked to the skies for a multitude of reasons. A couple of them would be something along the lines of religious beliefs or the physical use of the stars as a guide or a compass to bring families home or help discover new territories. The use of constellations have been recorded in Mesopotamian culture that has been dated back to around 4000 B.C. According to a “Constellation History” article by Jim Fuchs “In the 8th century B.C. (800-701). Homer mentioned a few now familiar constellations in his epic poem, the Odyssey. Four hundred years later Eudoxus of Cnidus wrote about 43 constellations.” (Fuch) Ptolemy, another Greek astronomer had created a book called the Almagest which contained a lot of our present day constellations. This book was written in 150 A.D. and contained 48 constellations of those 48, 21 were from the northern constellations and 12 were Zodiacal constellations and 15 from the southern constellations. These constellations consisted of many that are very well known to date such as Bootes, Ursa Major, Ursa Minor, Aries, Cancer, and Taurus. In the following paragraphs we will go over the history of these constellations. After Ptolemy, roughly 1100 years later in Moorish controlled Spain a group of scholars created the famous Arabic astronomy writing of the Alfonsine
My favourite constellation is Orion, or the hunter, as it's the first one I learned how to identify when I was a kid. Orion is easiest to see from November through to February, to the south-west if you are in the Northern Hemisphere, or the north-west if you are in the southern one. It's most marking feature is the belt, three bright stars in a short line. Most of the stars that make up the constellation or blue giants or supergiants.
For thousands of years people would look up in the sky and see images, and those images are called constellations! My constellation is called the Volans or The Flying Fish.
Constellations are a group of stars in a region that forms a pattern in the sky.
The objects that is has been mention above are very important to Gemini’s constellation. Pollux and Castor are the brightest stars known to Gemini. With two brothers, so very close together, they are easy to evaluate. Pollux is said to be brighter and golden in color, while Castor is fainter and white. According to NASA, Zeus reunited the immortal Pollux with his brother by placing both amongst the stars. Pollux from the Earth’s view is 1.14 apparent magnitude, while Castor is 1.98 apparent magnitude. The lower the number, the brighter the star in the night sky. Gemini is bursting with amazing stories and interesting details about the mythology that we have come to love so much. I hope to learn more about it one day.
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