Parallax, Star Brightness, And Kepler's Laws Of Planetary Motion

The essay gives some great examples on how the stars are also great help. The essay mentions an astronomer at Harvard observatory who explains that it is possible to use the stars as markers to determine distance to each star. From this idea, other astronomers got to use it to get a good idea of how big the Milky Way is. (473) This possible theory developed by this Harvard astronomer has changed the way we figure out distance by how long it took for the stars light to come.

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2) Why are there different brightness of stars and how do we describe their brightness as compared to one another?

It is easy to flip to the index of an astronomy textbook to discover that, say, the Sun lies 150 million kilometers away from Earth. It is far more difficult (if not impossible), however, to picture this distance in our mind. In this exercise, we will learn to access the often unpalatable distances encountered in astronomy by simply scaling the huge distances to more recognizable, familiar numbers. So long as every distance within the system of interest is scaled by the same

One of the first thing that he came up with was he made three laws, later known to be called Kepler’s laws. The first law he came up with is that planets rotate in elliptical paths around the sun. Which leads to his second finding and then later became known as his second law, he figured out that planets rotations are faster as they get more near the sun, then slower as they get further away from the sun. His third and final law dealt with the distance between the planet and the sun and how long it completed an orbit around the sun. Kepler used basic and simple mathematics to figure out how planets move, which proves him to be a very intelligent man at his time and in history. Kepler’s discoveries as well as many other astronomers put him and

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This lab was to inform us about the brightness of stars. We learned how to use the absolute magnitude and apparent magnitude to measure the luminosity of the stars. A stars brightness and magnitude are connected to each other. The lower numerical value of the magnitude the brighter the star will appear.

His first law states, “The orbits of the planets are ellipses, with the Sun at one focus of the ellipse.” As shown in Figure 1, The Sun is not at the focus of the ellipse, but is instead at one focus [usually there is nothing at the other focus of the ellipse]. The planet then trails the ellipse in its orbit, which implies that the Earth-Sun distance is continually changing as the planet goes around its orbit. Kepler’s second law states, “The line joining the planet to the Sun sweeps out equal areas in equal times as the planet travels around the ellipse.” As shown in Figure 2, an imaginary line from the center of the sun to the center of a planet sweeps out the same area in a given time. This means that planets move faster when they are closer to the sun. Kepler’s third and final law states, “The time taken by a planet to make one complete trip around the sun is its period. The ratio of the squares of periodic times for two planets is equal to the ratio of the cubes of their mean distances from the sun.” Kepler’s third law indicates that the time taken by a planet to orbit the Sun increases quickly with the radius of its orbit ("Johannes Kepler: The” 1-4). Kepler’s laws challenged Aristotelean and Ptolemaic astronomy. His statement that the Earth

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In the earlier 17th century, a German astronomer, Johannes Kepler (1571~1630) discovered three major laws of planetary motion; Kepler's 1st, 2nd and 3rd Law. These three golden eggs gave a very big effect for the later scientists; Issac Newton (1642~1726) submitted the universal gravitation was because of Kepler's laws. The three Kepler's laws also could be name: the law of ellipses, the area law and the harmonic law.

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The orbital velocities of most celestial objects can be worked out and represented by Kepler’s 3rd Law: The Square of the period of any celestial body is proportional to the cube of the radius of its orbit. This is visualised in the equation-

So far in the semester I have had a top three out of all the chapter and subjects we have learned about. I chose to start with psychological disorders because I find the concept of multiple personalities and what it abnormal and normal to be interesting. Second, I decided to go with sexuality and gender because sexuality is something that we all struggle with every day along with identifying who we are. Lastly, I decided to go with stress and health because stress is also something that we go through daily and struggle with.

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