Shooting Stars

I chose Proportional Scales in the Solar System, Examining Parallax, Star brightness, and Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion because I understood each section better than the other ones. Honestly I had some corrections to make in each assignment but in the end they were almost perfect. My first reaction was to choose topics that were the easiest to write about. But I thought about it and I chose the topics that I best understood. I enjoyed these activities the most and if I had to choose my favorite

universe originated, from the instant explosion of a extremely small nebulae. Approximately 15 billion years ago all matter in the universe today existed in an incredibly hot and dense state, from which it expanded and cooled slowly coalescing into stars and galaxies we have today. As the big bang was taking place only the lightest of elements would be able to form (hydrogen and helium) seeing that due to such a tremendous extent of heat the first elements would have to form under the condition that

particles. Neutrinos are subatomic elementary particles that are produced by the decay of radioactive elements. They are very abundant in the universe since they were, in fact, born from violent astrophysical events such as gamma ray bursts and exploding stars. Their state of existence is highly unnoticeable because they have almost no mass and no electric charge, as if they are almost nothing at all. Neutrinos are known for being quite similar to regular electrons. The big difference is that electrons have

The first step in the analysis of the NGC3718 NIR data is to align the J , H , and K S images. Due to the absence of secondary sources in the FoV, I choose an alignment method based on fitting ellipses on the isophote contours of NGC3718. For this, the Image Reduction and Analysis Facility’s (IRAF)19 ellipse task was used, which fits ellipses on the iso-intensity contours of the light distribution of a galaxy. In figure 2.4, I plot the X cent er and Ycent er coordinates, as indicated by each fitted

A hypnotizing video released by NASA yesterday shows stunning imagery of a plasma bursting from the Sun. The solar flare was so strong that it caused radio blackouts all across the earth. Did the space agency just stumble upon the gates of Heaven? NASA SPENDING QUALITY TIME WITH ITS SUN NASA and the sun have been doing some serious bonding over the last couple days. This close-knit relationship produced some amazing results yesterday as the agency caught a roaring hot flare of plasma escaping from

Jupiter is the fifth planet from the sun and was discovered in ancient times and it is named after the king of the Roman Gods. Jupiter is best known for being the largest planet and it’s iconic red spot and stripe patterning. Jupiter has four main moons that orbit at different rates and patterns. Jupiter is a gas planet and can grow very cold. Jupiter is a gas giant meaning it does not0 have a solid internal core. It's atmosphere is primarily hydrogen and helium. Thick layers of red

in 1929 Edwin Hubble discovered this law based on a study of the light received from the far away galaxies. He observed that the colours, emitted by the stars in the galaxies do not have exactly the same wavelengths observed in the laboratory, rather they are shifted to longer wavelengths, toward the red end of the spectrum. Evidence to support this theory is the fact that the universe is expanding, proven

Energy cannot be created or destroyed so how did the Universe or anything start. There is a theory that is called the Big Bang. There is a lot of evidence the Big Bang exploding. There are a lot of questions that have not been answered yet. Also there is a lot of the Universe that has not been explored yet. The most recent saying of the Big Bang is that it exploded. The Big Bang was a little dot somewhere in the universe. In the middle of the dot there was a lot of heat. It was really hot that

55 Cancri e, is a terrestrial planet that orbits around a star similar to our sun, 55 Cancri A. (site). 55 Cancri e is a super earth, which is most common in the galaxy. To study the atmosphere of exoplanet 55 Cancri e, an international team of scientists led by researchers at the University College London (UCL) performed a chemical analysis of the atmosphere. The team discovered that 55 Cancri e has a dry atmosphere without any water vapor. Principal investigator Angelos Tsiaras and his team from

How are the heavier naturally-occurring elements in the Periodic Table formed? Light elements are formed through the process of fusion of nuclei in stars and provides the energy to counter the gravitational attraction through outward pressure. Hydrogen is the first of the elements that will fuse either via the proton-proton chain reaction, in which hydrogen fuses to form helium or the CNO cycle where carbon, oxygen and nitrogen act as catalysts in the fusion of hydrogen. Since these 3 elements are