Astronomy Kerry Boettcher 6th Grade – Zoller Overview Children are enchanted by the twinkling stars in their night sky. Often one of the first songs we teach them‚ and that they then love to sing over and over‚ is "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star." This early connection between the music and words of this familiar old song and the actual lights above them is the beginning of understanding the vastness
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Measures of Astronomical Distances • Let’s view the Universe in terms of kilometres – The size of the observable universe is roughly 130‚000‚000‚000‚000‚000‚000‚000 km ! - Obviously measuring astronomical distances in km is inconvenient. - We need much BIGGER units of distance: • Some commonly used distance units: 1 ly (light year) = Distance traveled by light in 1 year = 9.46 trillion km 1 AU (astronomical unit) = average distance between the Sun & Earth = 150 million km A unit of distance‚
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Brian Mulder Astronomy 248 Term Paper Interstellar Space Travel: What does it hold for the future? Is space travel possible? This seems to be the question that everyone is wondering. If you take a look at the media it’s been all over the place. All sorts of movies depict space travel as easy as riding a bike. All you have to do is hop in your space cruiser‚ kick it in to hyper drive and boom! You are now visiting your friends on the other side of the galaxy‚ only a few ten thousand
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Stephanie Sanchez Figueroa Instructor: Vincent Tobin Astronomy 100 November 29‚ 2014 My Astronomy Interview Astronomy is the branch of science that deals with celestial objects‚ space‚ and the physical universe as a whole. The topics that I learned in my astronomy class include the sun and other stars‚ solar system‚ stellar evolution‚ galaxies‚ and the universe itself. Most of the topics were very interesting to me‚ because I learned a lot about the universe I live in. Although‚ I now have some
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GCSE Astronomy Topic 1 Key Facts The Earth Eratosthenes first measured the circumference of the Earth accurately. He measured the altitude of the Sun North of a place where the Sun was at the zenith at exactly the same time. Knowing the distance and the angle one can work out the circumference. The Earth is a slightly flattened sphere with average diameter 13‚000km The Earth takes 23 hours 56 minutes to rotate. This is a sidereal day. The Earth is the only known planet with liquid water and a range
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NATSCI-1 (2:30 – 4:00 pm) Submitted by : Jennie Rose S. Almasan Submitted to : Prof.Landingin “ NASA’s WISE Finds Mysterious Centaurs May Be Comets” New observations from NASA’s NEOWISE project reveal the hidden nature of centaurs‚ objects in our solar system that have confounded astronomers for resembling both asteroids and comets. The centaurs‚ which orbit between Jupiter and Neptune‚ were named after the mythical half-horse‚ half-human creatures called centaurs
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Constellation In modern astronomy‚ a constellation is an internationally defined area of the celestial sphere. These areas are grouped aroundasterisms (which themselves are generally referred to in non-technical language as "constellations")‚ which are patterns formed by prominent stars within apparent proximity to one another on Earth’s night sky. There are also numerous historical constellations not recognized by the IAU or constellations recognized in regional traditions of astronomy or astrology‚ such
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This is a sample essay on Comparison and Contrast of Astronomy and Astrology: In this paper I will attempt to contrast Astronomy and Astrology. Astronomy and Astrology are both sciences. They sound alike in pronunciation‚ and in some ways are similar in science‚ but overall‚ are different. Astronomy is a science that studies motion of bodies‚ evolution‚ composition‚ distance‚ and scattered matter in the universe. Astrology is a science that studies the things that happen on earth as they relate
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Changes came in the over all social life in the Gupta period with the tremendous development of science during this period. With the growth and intensification in the arena of mathematics‚ astrology‚ astronomy‚ medicine‚ Chemistry‚ Metallurgy‚ Botany‚ Zoology and Engineering Gupta period gained a striking facet. Mathematics under Gupta Empire In the realm of arithmetic the most important achievement was the discovery of the decimal system of notation. It was based upon the principle of the
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cannot be ascribed to the physical makeup” (Kieckhefer‚ 131) of themselves. I find that the most interesting point in this reading is when Kieckhefer explains how the zodiac is rooted in astronomy‚ yet astrologers used the zodiac to shape their ideas. Keeping in mind our class discussion that established astronomy as the science of movements‚ astrology as the science of effect‚ and that all astrologers were astronomers but not all astronomers were astrologers‚ I find
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