Stargazing: Cosmic Science

According to Socrates, a famous philosopher from Athens, Greece, "Man must rise above the Earth—to the top of the atmosphere and beyond—for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives." Socrates believes that astronomy can help other people understand the world better. Astronomy is the study of space, and in order for someone to to be an astronomer, they have to learn a lot of math and science and be good at it. Astronomy is not a big science field either, but there are a lot of different people employing for it. Astronomy helps people understand the world and that they are not the most important part of it, and that they are just a small part of it.

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.

Although all nine planets are a huge part of the solar system there's a lot more to the solar system than the nine planets. According to scientist the Solar System started out as an enormous cloud of gas and dust. Scientist believe that the cloud of dust and gas began to collapse under the weight of its own gravity and it did. The matter that was kept within itself began moving in a giant circle and at the center of the spinning cloud a tiny star began to form. The star eventually grew larger and collected more dust and gas that collapsed into it. Farther from the center of the mass that was being formed there was many smaller clumps of dust and gas that were also collapsing. The large cloud in the center eventually became the sun while the smaller clumps formed the planets, moons, comets and,

“Are we Alone? the history of astronomy has shaped the course of human society, connecting science with human spirituality and sense of wonder at the unimaginable vastness of the cosmos”. (Shuttleworth). Astronomy is the branch of science that deals with celestial objects, space, and the physical universe. Ancient astronomers attempted to explain religion rather than explain natural phenomenon.

As our proto-sun was forming and spinning gases such as hydrogen and helium were pushed to outer rings of the nebula. Dust grains near the sun started to collide and overtime the particles and the collisions grew larger. Furthermore, gravity pulled these some of pieces together at a faster rate and over time this process created small planets or planetesimals . As these planetesimals grew larger they combined and created the planets closest to the sun : Mercury, Venus, Mars and Earth.

system. Scientists say that it is not a planet but look at the other planets in

At first, we must talk about the whole system, I mean the solar system. The solar system consists of 8 planets and many dwarf planets. Pluto has become a dwarf planet since 2006 this for who will take about 9 planets. The Sun is our store which provides us with energy and heat. Sun can control all planets and comets in a field of its gravity; which covers a great area in space. The Sun moves at a speed of 20 km/s or 12 mile/s towards constellation Lambda pulling all planets with it around our galaxy ''The Milky

multitudes something well known to astronomers: On the scale of worlds—to say nothing of stars

The scientists using the NASA/ESA Hubble and NASA’s Herschel telescopes looked further out into the Universe. They want to observe the early galaxies. According to the scientists, 83 percent of all stars formed since the Bing Bang were actually located in disc-shaped galaxies.

As you look into the night sky, what do you see? Little bright dots that you can barely see? Edwin Hubble invented the Hubble Space Telescope that helped scientists around the world observe space. In this Essay, I will be covering who Edwin Hubble is, what exactly his revolutionary telescope is, his key discovers, and also the implications of his discoveries.

Throughout the history of human civilization humans have tried to find connections between the observations of the sky and their ideas about the nature of the universe. People have always been enchanted by the stars and their endless number. The mathematical meaning of infinity was attributed to ancient Greek philosopher Archimedes. After Galileo invented the telescope which allowed him to discern innumerable number of stars in the galaxy, astronomers had acquired a powerful tool to investigate celestial phenomena and objects. Since then, many scientists have tried to create a model of the universe that could be used to explain its nature and calculate its characteristics. The emergence of more powerful telescopes allowed astronomers to discover

Astronomy has helped us find a lot about how we can survive at a whole new planet. Although we can’t deny the fact that humans wouldn’t be able to live on Mars until the abundant water and minerals are extracted from there and until all the basic commodities are available for example housing, food, clothes and other necessary technological advancements, however if all these requirements meet we surely will be able to develop a home at Mars. Perhaps it’s due to astronomy that the human curiosity for knowing about their origin can be fulfilled. Astronomy repeatedly reminds people of two seemingly paradoxical statements; firstly that the universe is absolute and we are of but the smallest portion of significance, and secondly that life is exceptional

“The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.”- Albert Einstein. Universe is a mysterious world that is incomprehensible to clarify. However, through intelligence, intuition and ingenuity, it affected Humans to perceive the uncharted world they live in and make it comprehensible. After the tremendous explosion, hundreds of billions of stars were swirling and interacting with each other by gravity, constituting a galaxy. In the midst of chaos, there was the Milky Way galaxy, our galactic home. Unlike a regular spiral, the Milky Way galaxy is a barred spiral that was comprised with two minor arms and spurs. One of the spurs, Onion Arm, contains the sun and the solar system. There are eight planets in our solar system and they are all unique. Yet, out of all the planets, Saturn, perplexed many astronomers with its discoveries. First and Foremost, the “chemical compounds in its upper atmosphere color, its cloud bands in subtle shades of ivory and broad, lacy rings that encircle Saturn”, captivated the astronomers with its charm. Although, ancient Greeks were able to detect Saturn thousand years ago, no one conceded that Saturn had its rings, until Galileo perceived them with his telescope in 1610. Indeed, the discovery of Saturn left its mark on the history, where astronomers had an abysmal quarrel whether it was heliocentric or geocentric.

our solar system, but they are unimportant compared to the nine major planets. In this paper I will discuss the planets and how they are each unique.

Humans live on a small planet in a tiny part of a vast universe. This part of the universe is called the solar system, and is dominated by a single brilliant star-the sun. The solar system is the earth’s neighbourhood and the planets Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto are the Earth’s neighbours. They all have the same stars in the sky and orbit the same sun.