Sombrero Galaxy

find an answer to our constant wonder. Are there any alien civilisations out there? Turns out calculating the odds of extraterrestrial civilisations is complicated. Astronomer and astrophysics Frank Drake decided to limit his thinking to our home galaxy- and only to civilisations that would be capable of interstellar communication. He identified the conditions that would enable these civilisations to evolve and formulated a mathematical equation (named the Drake Equation) that would help us quantify

Stephen Hawking, a physicist cosmologist, and dreamer, main goal has always been to find out how the universe works and to determine why it exists at all (Hawking). To accomplish this goal, he creates a theory that explains the origin of the universe and the steps leading to the formation of the elements. The universe is about 14 billion years old and consists of many clusters that has approximately 400 billion stars. In fact, the Earth and everything around us are made by stars (Hawking). The Big

fuzzy “spiral nebulae” (which today we call galaxies): Were they close enough to be part of our own Milky Way, or were they sufficiently distant to be whole galaxies unto themselves? Shapley held that, given that his research had revised an increase in theinupward the size of the Milky Way, the spiral nebulae must be part of our own Galaxy. His opponent, Heber Curtis of California’s Lick Observatory, while incorrectly rejecting the great size of our Galaxy, correctly argued that the spirals were removed

however stars, in practice, are never perfectly spherical, and so they will produce gravitational waves due to the disturbances caused in the space-time continuum. In 1974, Joseph Taylor and Russell Hulse found such a pair of neutron stars in our own galaxy.[cite] One of the stars is a pulsar, meaning it beams regular pulses of radio waves toward Earth. Taylor

O: There are four clocks. They are odd in shape because they appear to be melted. They are all different colors. The background is a deserted desert. The bottom left clock has ants on it. There is a dead tree. This piece of art was painted by surrealist, Salvador Dali. Each clock has a different time set. Only three clocks appear to be melted meanwhile one has rusted. - P: In the painting there are four clocks, a dead tree, a body of water in the distance, sand, mountains, a white blanket, ants

Have you ever thought about how infinitely large the world truly is? This is something I think of quite a bit, because it is so mind-boggling to think that there is so much more out in the universe that we may never know about. But, on the other hand, have you ever thought of how infinitely small the world is? Everything we see, touch, or smell, as well as everything we eat, and each and every piece wood and brick that builds our homes, are composed of some elaborate combination of molecules. It

The Big Bang theory. The Big Bang, what is it? What does it tell us? How do we know that The Big Bag is a viable theory? The BIg Bang theory is currently the best theory (astro)physicists and cosmologists have to describe the beginning of the universe in which we live. The theory also has implications on how cosmologists think the universe will end. We call it the big bang as it was originally thought of as a preposterous theory; That the universe didn 't exist at some stage and then it just decided

shoot them off into outer space. The place for my planet is in the Triangulum Galaxy. The Triangulum Galaxy is a spiral galaxy about 2.7 million light years (25761569076837520000km)away from Earth. The solar mass of the Triangulum Galaxy is 50 billion Mʘ (standard unit of mass in Astronomy). This galaxy has about 40 billion stars which is 1/5th of how many there are in the Milky Way Galaxy. And 1/25th 's of the Andromeda Galaxy. The name of my planet is Frigusodayin (Cold Air)(Latin, Armenian). The first

Timeline of The Big Bang The broadly accepted philosophy for the evolution of our universe is the Big Bang theory, which states that the universe began as an incredibly hot and dense point roughly 13.7 billion years ago before expanding into a large, unexplored cosmos; home to an unknown amount of planets and systems. The universe is said to have begun with a cataclysm that generated space and time, as well as all of the matter and energy that the universe will ever hold. For an incomprehensibly

Measuring Distances Name of Method & Equations Description & Explanation Strengths Weaknesses Parallax (Trigonometry) (Lco.global, 2017) A parallax is used to measure a star’s distance. During every 6 months’ astronomers look at a star and record it they then measure the distance it moved to find the actual distance from the sun. Accurate for close stars/planets. Get inaccurate for stars over 200 light years. Luminosity (Absolute/Apparent magnitude) (Astronomy, 2017) Luminosity is the brightness