Ch. 1 Study Questions 1. To an astronomer, what shape would the sky be, if you had to assign it a shape? 2. What lines on the Celestial Sphere are analogous to latitude? 3. What lines on the Celestial Sphere are analogous to longitude? 4. What naked eye star stay put in the sky, while […]
Date: August 22nd, 2022
Learning Goal: I’m working on a astronomy project and need an explanation and answer to help me learn. Project Description Make two scale models, one of the local group of galaxies and the other of the 10 closest stars to the Sun. Make a model of the Solar Neighborhood. Choose the 10 closest stars to […]
Date: August 15th, 2022
Project Description Use the Citizen ASAS-SN Zooniverse project to help identify variable star light curves. Go to https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/tharinduj/citizen-asas-sn ASAS-SN Stands for All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae. It is a network of 24 telescopes located at sites around the world that is capable of surviving the entire visible night sky each day. While the network is […]
Date: August 6th, 2022
Paragraph 1: What is the CMB? What, in general, does it provide evidence for? What are the recent investigations into resolving information on the CMB? Paragraph 2: Include discussions of the two pieces of independent evidence predicting the existence of the CMB; what observations are made; how that data is collected. Paragraph 3: Research and […]
Date: August 6th, 2022
Preface When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer By Walt Whitman When I heard the learn’d astronomer, When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me, When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them, When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the […]
Date: August 5th, 2022
The Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxy are predicted to collide in about 4 billion years. Notice in the simulation that the two galaxies pass through each other, move a bit apart and then collide again in a series of “bounces” until they completely merge. The expectation is that this collision wouldn’t affect the solar […]
Date: July 26th, 2022
The Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxy are predicted to collide in about 4 billion years. Notice in the simulation that the two galaxies pass through each other, move a bit apart and then collide again in a series of “bounces” until they completely merge. The expectation is that this collision wouldn’t affect the solar […]
Date: July 26th, 2022
Students also describe the major contribution made by that personality and what it means for us today, this astronmer is Giovannia Cassuini. A brief background of the person A description of how the discovery was made An analysis of why this discovery was groundbreaking for that time period. Evaluate the impact the discovery has had […]
Date: July 20th, 2022
Astronomy Investigations: The Nebraska Astronomy Applet Project: NAAP Labs, https://astro.unl.edu/nativeapps/, The NAAP Labs application is required. fill out the worksheet using the lab application and 2labs
Date: July 14th, 2022
reserach the big bang theory to its effect on our society, its importance for our future, or its role in the evolution of philosophical and religious ideas. The paper should be backed by at least 5 sources. The length of the paper should be between 5 to 7 pages. work cited page do NOT count […]
Date: June 27th, 2022
