Lab Report: Zodiac Negotiation

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

One interesting thing about Jupiter is if it were 80 times greater, it would be a star, because it is pretty much made up of the same sources as stars. It's mostly hydrogen and helium in a liquid form. Some people think of Jupiter as a mini solar system because of all of it's orbiting moons. So now you know more about this massive gas giant, so if you have a telescope, go outside on a calm night and look for a big bright star, it may be

1. Explain what the sun is and how it differs from other stars we see in the sky.

The brightness a star would have if it were at 10 pc from Earth is called its: A. Absolute Magnitude.

He described it as a "tailless nebulosity" approximately two to three times the diameter of Jupiter and glowing at a magnitude of 7.5 which is too dim to be seen with the unaided eye. It is however readily visible with strong binoculars.

Then red dwarf star that was discovered by Michal Gillion and his team with the spencer telescope. Once they discovered this star that is a lot small and colder than our sun, it allowed them to get a vision of the seven planets. The star is about 40 light years away. There are not 3 or four planets but there are 7 earth like planets.

There are billions upon billions of stars in our galaxy but only about 2000 of those are visible to us at night. Although there is one star that we are able to see during the day, but only because it is the closest one to earth, this star is the sun. Because the brightness of the sun is so vast we cannot see other stars, but when the sun sets we can see an abundance of celestial objects. The sun appears to be what some would call “the largest star” but it is only an average sized star, there are a countless more that are hundreds times the size of our sun. When we look up into the night sky and focus our eyes on what appears to be a star we often notice it twinkling, this is caused by turbulence in earth’s atmosphere. The atmosphere is like a lens and makes a boiling effect causing stars to look like they’re twinkling. Astronomers have discovered clusters of stars forming patterns, we call them constellations and there are roughly eighty-eight in our night sky. Stars can come in all kinds of different shapes sizes and distances, which causes some stars to appear closer than others. Bigger stars tend to shine more brightly than smaller stars. Even though a star seems bigger and brighter than the others doesn’t actually mean it is, it could just be a star closer to earth than most. The closest star to us is Alpha Centauri and is approximately four light years from earth meaning it takes four years for the light from Alpha Centauri to reach

I have chosen the constellation Leo. I have chosen Leo because it is my horoscope sign. The real name of the constellation Leo is leonis which in translation means "the lion". Leo's right ascention is 11 hours, and its declination is 15 degrees. Leo is made up of 11 stars(regulus, denebola, algiebra, zosma, ras elased australius, adhafera, chort, al minliar asad, alterf, ras elesed borialas, subra). Leo is also one of the 13 constellations of the zodiac.

They are very luminous stars that have a relatively cool surface temperature compared to the stars in the main sequence that have about the same luminosity. Red giants typically have low to intermediate mass than a regular star, even though they are about 1000 times larger in the red giant phase of stellar evolution. Red supergiants are known as the biggest stars by radius. The biggest red supergiant is mentioned as VY Canis Majoris. This star is about 1800 times bigger than our sun. Although there are plenty of red giants in space, none of them are that close to us. The closest red giant is Gamma Crucis (88 light years away).3

The sun is usually a hot ball, a yellow dwarf star that glows gasses at the central part of the solar system.

Antares is the brightest star in the constellation Scorpius, it has around 850 times the radius of the Sun and 12 time massive than the Sun, if it was placed in the center of our solar system it would reach beyond the orbit of Mars. The distance from Earth is about 550 light year. It is around 57,500 times brighter than the Sun. Around 12 million years old Antares is already nearing the end of its lifespan and is expected to explode as a supernova in the next million years. Low mass stars such as our sun exist in their main sequence for several billion years. Surface temperature is approximately 18,500

The term Leonid refers to the tale of following the meteor trails backward to the point where it meets with the Sickle asterism which is a group of bright stars that can resemble a question mark. To spot Leo you need to first locate the Big Dipper and poke a hole in the bottom. As the water falls from the bottom of the bowl you can sometimes hear Leo roar as the water falls on him.

While the vast majority are of similar class to our sun and bright yellow and white in colour there are also signs of red giants reaching the end of their lives, as well as many small white dwarfs. Perhaps the more puzzling stars are the bright ‘blue stragglers’ (as depicted in the famous Hertzsprung-Russell diagram), as these stars should have expired long ago in explosions called supernova. It has been suggested by astronomers that these stars may be the merging occurring in such a crowded neighbourhood between lower mass

The Star of Life is a six pointed blue star with a white border and the Rod of Asclepius in the center of it. It was first created by the National Highway Traffic Safety Association.

Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and by far the largest mass object in the solar system of all the other planets. Jupiter is twice the size of all the other planets combined. It is as 318 times the sizes of earth. The distance that Jupiter orbits the sun is 778,330,000 km (Gallant pp154). The diameter is 142,984 km and the mass that it has is 1.900e27 kg. Jupiter is the fourth brightest object in the sky after the Sun, the Moon and Venus. Mars is some times brighter. Galileo discovered Jupiter in 1610(Gallant); another interesting fact is that Jupiter has 4 large moons. Which are known as the Galilean moons. They were named Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto. The first mission that went to Jupiter was Pioneer 10 in 1973 and later