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Katie Au and Lauren Tolbert #11756 #11635 Mr C. Science 8, Period 4 27 April, 2017 Constellations Have you ever wondered why you see certain shapes or patterns in the sky formed by stars? Well, these formations are called constellations. There are tons of different constellations that represent different logics of many poets, farmers, and astronomers. Along the years, there have been many different relations that the constellations have to famous myths and stories that are a part of world life.

Go to http://phet.colorado.edu/simulations/sims.php?sim=My_Solar_System and click on Run Now. 1. Move the slider all the way to accurate, click on the tape measure and the grid. 2. Click the radio button for 4 objects and run the simulation until the purple planet (body 2) has made one complete orbit (one year). 3. After the first orbit (year), turn off the traces (show traces box) and watch another orbit (year) of the purple planet (body 2). Question One: Is blue moon (body 3) circling

culture shows such as Star Trek. The reality is however that while we spend a lot of time studying them we know very little about Black holes. What we do know is that there are two types of black holes based on their relative size, there are Stellar black holes and Supermassive black holes. Stellar black holes are only a few times larger than our sun while Supermassive black holes are about a billion times larger than our sun. Both types of black hole are formed when a star implodes and there is

other nearby stars were not designed to sustain life. One example would be the star Proxima Centauri. This star recently had a short increase in radiation, known as a flare. This flare caused the star to become a thousand times brighter for ten seconds. Earth’s sun also has flares, but they are much smaller. When Proxima Centauri is at its brightest point it is still ten times brighter than our suns largest flare. This is just one example of how special our sun really is. The star Proxima Centauri

There’s something soft in the way Erik sleeps. It isn’t in his posture, coiled up so tightly it’s as if he’s afraid that should he let his limbs loose, the entire word would start to crumble. It’s certainly not that he’s quiet, low phrases in German slipping from his lips throughout the night, with the occasional snore even if he’d never admit it. No, the softness is in his face. The curve of his lips, the smooth line between his brows that usually holds a furrow. It’s gentle and serene, free of

that in the darkest skies that we see the brightest stars” quoted by Richard Evans. Stars are bright objects in space made from burning gas. As the quote says stars are seen brightest in dark areas. A star has 8 stages in its entire life it starts with the Nebula stage, then ends in a black hole. Did you know that almost all constellations have a legend?! Constellations are groups of stars forming objects or patterns in the sky. These stars that appear to look like objects or patterns are named

The Life Cycle of Stars Stars go through tremendous things in the course of their life. In a star’s life they go through eight different phases. These phases can take many years to go through. When a star is made up it starts needing. Gas and dust in space to form what is called a nebula. Nebulae are the birthplace of stars. There are different types of nebulas one being an emission nebula. For example the Orion Nebula grows very brightly because of the gas that is in it which is energized

We are here because the stars wanted to be human. In his book A Universe From Nothing: Why There is Something Rather Than Nothing, Lawrence M. Krauss says that “you couldn’t be here if the stars hadn’t exploded.” The elements required for life - human life - came out of their decimation. So, we are all made of stardust, he says. How astute. Krauss is right; everything that we know has been artfully composed of celestial matter. I am made of stardust. You, reader, are made of stardust. Once upon

It all begins by asking the simple question: what is real? Seeing is believing, human as the most advanced species on earth have evolved to be heavily reliant on vision, it is estimated that eighty to eighty five percent of our perception, learning, cognition and activities are mediated through vision, so what we see must be real. Right? Figure 1 is a picture of an Einstein Ring, taken with the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera 3. When you first look at it, after all the amazement caused

When a massive star, outclassing our own sun by fiat, grows old enough that it’s run out of fuel, it sometimes explodes in a violent reaction releasing the elements necessary for new stars, new planets and systems into the depths of space in a matter of minutes. This process is believed to resemble the big bang itself, and astronomers have just discovered the presence of a chemical called lithium in a nova, and this chemical’s presence is helping us understand the concentration of lithium in stellar