Interest in the unknown, outer space and extraterrestrials is projected through the landing of the shooting star and…
This was the reason he was excited to know that the scientist he was going to study under was an Austrian-born German. If I could make something that can touch the stars, I will die a happy man. Space, to him, was a limitless mass full of untouched discovery. Philosophers and writers from the past had since alluded to the mystique of space.…
A spiral galaxy is a certain kind of galaxy originally described by Edwin Hubble in his 1936 work The Realm of the Nebulae and, as such, forms part of the Hubble sequence. Spiral galaxies consist of a flat, rotating disc containing stars, gas and dust, and a central concentration of stars known as the bulge.(Sloan) Spiral galaxies resemble spiraling pinwheels, nearly 77% of space consists of spiral galaxies. Though the stars and other visible material contained in such a galaxy lie mostly on a plane, the majority of mass in spiral galaxies exists in a roughly spherical halo of dark matter that extends beyond the visible component, as demonstrated by the universal rotation curve concept. In the Hubble classification scheme: Spiral galaxies…
The Discovery of Uranus It was the year 1781. William Herschel had just made an incredible discovery. He had discovered the planet Uranus. But, what led him to this discovery?…
"For the Galaxy is nothing else than a congeries of innumerable stars distributed in clusters." ( Galilei , 62) . He discovered that it was made up of millions of stars. These stars weren't seen by the naked eye. He called the cluster of stars the Nebula of Orion with around twenty one stars.…
On a newly constructed dais sat a single throne. Upon that throne sat Arcana, Queen of the Yates Nebula. Below the dais were another group of twenty generals and world leaders. Standing to the left was her parents and to their right her sister, husband and the body of their dead son she had just ordered his execution. Every so often she smiled at her younger sister and her husband as they contend with the heavy manacles that kept them upright and unable to console their son as he slowly died before their eyes.…
What was the motivation that led to the discovery? William Herschel was an accomplished musician in 18th century England. After achieving musical success his interests turned to the stars. He and his sister Caroline began cataloguing stars, keeping track of their positions, movements and taking many notes. Caroline is credited with keeping the notes organized and up to date.…
Have you ever looked into the night sky and wondered, what beauty lies just beyond the reach of the naked eye? There is so much beauty out there to be seen, not with the naked eye but, rather with the use of a powerful telescope. Most people do not have the chance or opportunity to experience and view the stars and planets that surround us. The universe that surrounds us is one of God’s most brilliant and beautiful creations, and the history and science that is out there is just waiting to be studied. The Stars have been an important aspect to humans since before writing.…
I have always been fascinated with the night sky and have enjoyed looking up at it without the light pollution. While living in Las Vegas I would have to commute at least an hour past Red Rock or Valley of Fire to escape the bright lights of the city. Since moving to a small town I have been able to enjoy watching the moons and her phases, meteor showers, and seeing where the constellations are in the night sky. William Herschel was a German composer, teacher, and musician residing and working in Bath, England. He was also a novice astronomer until he discovered Uranus with his homemade telescope, which consisted of a 7 foot mirror reflector, that he had personally polished.…
Introduction Fredrick Douglass once said “If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” (Douglas, n.d.). This seems to fit the life of Alfred Wegener and his struggle to prove his theory of Pangaea and continental drift. A brief overview of his life, his research, and difficulties he faced will be presented.…
Infrared waves is an electromagnetic radiations of a wavelength and or colour. They are usually between 740 nanometers. 1 millimeter is equals to 1 million nanometers. Human eyes can't detect on the red side of a rainbow. William Herschel is the person who first discovered infrared around 1800.…
Annotated Works Cited CCA Bryand, Arthur “Samuel Pepys” Encyclopædia Britannica, February 15, 2007 aaaaaawww.britannica.com/biography/Samuel-Pepys, accessed February 14, 2017 Encyclopaedia Britannica’s article about Samuel Pepys gives an account of Pepys’ life and career in detail. It describes his education at Magdalene College and then his marriage to Elizabeth Marchant de Saint-Michel. After this, it explains his lengthy career in naval administration, where he greatly increased England’s sea power by professionalizing the navy, and doubling the amount of ships and guns England had. Finally, it talks about Pepys’ diary, in which he recorded his experiences for nine years.…
The chaos that brought forth the double star presents itself as a beacon to the mutual existence of both man and alien in the short story. Perhaps the existence of this nebula’s stars is merely presented as mere set dressing, or perhaps not. The emphasis on the nebula, and its stars, seems to go much further than set dressing, or even coincidence, simply from the realization that this story is speculative, and therefore relies on imagination. As Leinster’s short story is based upon imagination rather than reality, the odds that the nebula would just accidentally contain two types of stars, one a double star that shines brightly and the lone white dwarf star that fades into the mists together with two ships who must decide between cooperation or annihilation appears in retrospect, as the only one of the intentional details Leinster applies through light imagery in the short…
Astronomy is a very interesting career. It is the branch of science that deals with outer space objects, space, and the physical universe as a whole. They use data on movements, compositions, and other properties of space objects and phenomena. I chose this career because astronomers make a good bit of money, and also because I enjoy reading and learning about outer space. They increase our understanding of the universe, and our place in it.…
Space is extraordinary! It is full of planets, stars, and many other things. There are several different hypotheses that were proposed on how the solar system was created. One of these hypotheses is the Nebular that was formulated by Pierre-Simon de Laplace in 1796. Many years later, in the 1900s, the Protoplanet hypothesis was proposed by Carl von Weizsäcker and Gerard Kuiper.…