Gliese 581 c is an exoplanet orbiting around a red dwarf star called Gliese 581. It is categorized as a super-Earth, a planet that is between 5 and 10 times the mass of Earth. This could be a potential home for humanity in the future, because it is thought to be in the goldilocks zone. However, it is tidally locked to its star, causing one side to be extremely hot and one side to be extremely cold.
“Our stance is not against science. It’s not against the [telescope] itself, It’s against their choice of place,” Lanakila Managauil argued. The Thirty-Meter Telescope, or TMT, is planned to be built on top of Mauna Kea and is going to be used for space research (TMT.org). But, Native Hawaiians protested this telescope being built for many suitable reasons. This telescope should not be built because of the excessive funds, telescopes have already been built on the mountain, and Mauna Kea is sacred land to the Native Hawaiians.
Ethos, by definition, is the action that tries to convince the reader or audience that the author of the piece is credible. In the proposal by, Stephan Reynolds, his writing piece revealed his experience and expertise within his field as within his introduction he incorporated citations that would back his statement that Kepler’s supernova happened due to a Type la event. Starting in the introduction the first clue to Reynolds credibility is his usage of citations to back up his claim, as he states that the supernova trace was due to “interaction with dense circumstellar medium, which could arise from a core-collapse event.” (Reynolds 1). He used information from another source to back his credibility as to why the supernova residue that Kepler
“The Space Between Stars” was written by Geeta Kothari. The short story is about an Indian Girl named Maya who immigrated to America at a young age. The story shows what she went threw growing up as a female immigrant and all the situations he had to overcome. Through out the story I learned that there are women who struggle to show how they feel and how brave and compassionate a woman can be. I already had a great appreciation for women because my mother raise me on her own for the first two years of my life.
Stargazing 101: Gemini, the Twins It’s exciting to see many of these stories start to intertwine! The Gemini brothers, as I mention later on, have been involved in many adventures throughout Greek mythology. They rescued their sister, Helen of Troy, the first time she was abducted (a separate abduction from the Trojan War.) I’m also really enjoying these cover images by Sidney Hall.
“The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind” (Henri Bergson). During the twentieth century, the world wars were playing out so one can see why authors would choose to focus on celestial settings since they provided the much needed escape from their violence-stricken lives. In Arthur C. Clarke’s, space odyssey short story, “The Star,” an astrophysicist priest’s faith is shaken by the discovery of an obliterated race deep in outer space. Likewise, in E. M. Forster’s, insightful short story, “The Celestial Omnibus,” a young boy ventures out beyond the safety of his home and discovers a bus to heaven. Despite being mocked on Earth, he is crowned king for his innocence and humility.
Timeline - When did your discovery occur and how did it change our understanding of space? Share where our current understanding was before the discovery Current understanding: humans can’t live on other planets yet. Discuss when the discovery occurred and over what timeframe it developed Their discovery occured in 2008, starts with Falcon 1.
Nicholas Copernicus was an “astronomer, a mathematician, a church jurist with a doctorate in law, a physician, a translator, an artists, a Catholic cleric, a governor, a diplomat, and an economist” (p.4) .Copernicus completed a detailed astronomical manuscript he has been working on for 16 years. He didn't want to “publish it for fear of ensuing controversy” and “out of hope for more data”(p.5). He believed that the solar system revolved around the sun. He challenged the Geocentric view by creating the Heliocentric view. Copernicus was born February 19, 1473.
Ed Pien has been modifying and adapting his basic vocabulary of installation elements for several years now. Drawings of vaguely mythical crea- tures and characters form the figurative core, while the drawings' translucent paper supports are installed as architectural elements in their own right rather than mounted on walls. Recently, video projections and audio components have complemented the drawings' tactile ethereality. His most recent exhibition, Celestial Bodies, was installed in the Davies Foundation Gallery of the Agnes Etherington Art Centre, a room approach- ing the static proportions of a cube. Pien oriented his glassine-paper draw-
Trappist-1 is an alien solar system 40 light years from Earth. On the first discovery, scientist found 3 exoplanets that there is a possibility to habitat life. Until now, on February 22, 2017, NASA announced more information on Trappist-1. As stated on NASA’s website, “NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has revealed the first known system of seven Earth-size planets around a single star. Three of these planets are firmly located in the habitable zone, the area around the parent star where a rocky planet is most likely to have liquid water.”
Character Analysis By Kezia Thiessen Ernie Hupfer is a minor character that isn’t well known, yet his contribution to the story is critical. In the book, Orbiting Jupiter, by Gary D. Schmidt, Ernie has a very small role, and says few things. The book is about Jack, Jack’s foster Joseph, and Joseph’s daughter Jupiter. Ernie is Jack’s friend, and his contribution in this position should not be ignored.
The invention of the Hubble Space Telescope started in 1990. This telescope is one of the greatest advances of orbiting Earth. It is on peak of the atmosphere that blocks light that reaches our planet. The Hubble Telescope is a very successful invention for NASA. It has brought back to us thousands of images.
According to the text, Kepler's laws are three statements that describe the paths of planets and other objects orbiting the sun, and the moons orbiting the planets. The first law says "The orbit of each planet around the Sun is an ellipse with the Sun at one focus." This means that the path all of the planets take in their orbit around the sun is in the shape of an ellipse or an oval rather than a perfect circle. The second law says "A line joining a planet and the Sun sweeps out equal areas in equal intervals of time," meaning that a planet's speed decreases as it moves away from the sun and increases as it moves toward the sun. The third law says "The square of a planet's sidereal period around the Sun is directly proportional to the
He thoroughly elaborates and investigates the motions in longitude of the five planets and the size of their orbits in relation to that of the earth (Armitage, 1990, pg. 70). Nicolaus repeatedly overrides Ptolemy’s theory in this section of the piece. Book VI simply explains the movement of the planets in latitude. On May 24, 1543, Nicolaus suffered a hemorrhage, leading to the paralysis of his entire right side of the body. He died at the age of only 70.
The Great Pyramid of Giza, figure (3a), is one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World and also a symbol of Egypt. It was built in 2650 BCE and was considered to be the tallest structure ever made by human hands. By looking at a cross section through a pyramid, one can notice a triangle. This triangle in the Great Pyramid is known as the Triangle of Price or the Kepler triangle (shown in figure 3b). The Kepler Triangle is a right triangle with “edge lengths in geometric progression.”
