The Solar System Information Pack
... reach out and touch them. It can be used not only as a teaching aid about the Space Station, but also to inspire young learners imaginations, give them a love of science and to stimulate their curiosity to want to find out more about our Solar System. Session: ‘Space and Planets’ The aim of this ses ...
... reach out and touch them. It can be used not only as a teaching aid about the Space Station, but also to inspire young learners imaginations, give them a love of science and to stimulate their curiosity to want to find out more about our Solar System. Session: ‘Space and Planets’ The aim of this ses ...
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... 1. The brightest star visible from the northern hemisphere is the star Sirius, which is 8.7 light years from Earth in the constellation of Canis Major. It takes a spaceship 4.9 years to travel from Earth to Sirius, according to the spaceship’s on board clocks. According to Earth clocks, the trip tak ...
... 1. The brightest star visible from the northern hemisphere is the star Sirius, which is 8.7 light years from Earth in the constellation of Canis Major. It takes a spaceship 4.9 years to travel from Earth to Sirius, according to the spaceship’s on board clocks. According to Earth clocks, the trip tak ...
Measuring Distances Beyond the Solar System The Characteristics
... The Luminosity of a star is measured by comparing it with the luminosity of the Sun, which is assigned a luminosity of 1. Sirius, the brightest star in the night sky found in the constellation of Canis Major, has a luminosity of 22. This means Sirius gives off 22 times more energy each second than ...
... The Luminosity of a star is measured by comparing it with the luminosity of the Sun, which is assigned a luminosity of 1. Sirius, the brightest star in the night sky found in the constellation of Canis Major, has a luminosity of 22. This means Sirius gives off 22 times more energy each second than ...
Astr 1 010 Spring2Ol2 Quiz 1 Name: (Your score
... Please write the letter of your choice in capital letters in the left-hand margin. 1) At what type of eclipse does an object grow dark because it is in the Earth’s shadow? A). Solar eclipse. B) Lunar eclipse. C) Eclipses that happen to take place at 1st or 3rd quarter moons. D) None of these the Ear ...
... Please write the letter of your choice in capital letters in the left-hand margin. 1) At what type of eclipse does an object grow dark because it is in the Earth’s shadow? A). Solar eclipse. B) Lunar eclipse. C) Eclipses that happen to take place at 1st or 3rd quarter moons. D) None of these the Ear ...
Sky Science Notes
... enters the first quarter and it is a crescent shaped half circle. Between the First Quarter and the full moon we see over half the face of the moon illuminated. We call this phase a waxing gibbous. A week after the first quarter a full moon appears. The entire face of the moon is illuminated from ou ...
... enters the first quarter and it is a crescent shaped half circle. Between the First Quarter and the full moon we see over half the face of the moon illuminated. We call this phase a waxing gibbous. A week after the first quarter a full moon appears. The entire face of the moon is illuminated from ou ...
Copernican Revolution Part 1
... studied for ten years to familiarize the mind with relations that can only be apprehended by thought. Observing the heavens lowers the spirits… About complex from simple: Theon of Smyrna wrote: The changing aspects of the revolution of the planets is because, being fixed in their own circles or i ...
... studied for ten years to familiarize the mind with relations that can only be apprehended by thought. Observing the heavens lowers the spirits… About complex from simple: Theon of Smyrna wrote: The changing aspects of the revolution of the planets is because, being fixed in their own circles or i ...
Planets
... of extensive volcanism, and the sulphur in the atmosphere may indicate that there have been some recent eruptions. The planet has few impact craters, demonstrating that the surface is relatively young, approximately 300 to 600 million years old. ...
... of extensive volcanism, and the sulphur in the atmosphere may indicate that there have been some recent eruptions. The planet has few impact craters, demonstrating that the surface is relatively young, approximately 300 to 600 million years old. ...
The Origin of Our Solar System
... Laplace’s nebular hypothesis included a disk but depended on rings of matter left behind by disk contraction. He did not take into account how gas and dust behave in such a disk. In the SNT, the planets grew within the disk by carefully described physical processes – an evolutionary process (called ...
... Laplace’s nebular hypothesis included a disk but depended on rings of matter left behind by disk contraction. He did not take into account how gas and dust behave in such a disk. In the SNT, the planets grew within the disk by carefully described physical processes – an evolutionary process (called ...
ASTRONOMY 110G Review Questions for
... To a naked-eye observer, what distinguishes the planets from the stars? What about with a telescope? Describe the motions of the Earth, Sun, Moon, and planets according to the Ptolemaic System. What were the principal difficulties with this picture? What about the Copernican system? Kepler's first t ...
... To a naked-eye observer, what distinguishes the planets from the stars? What about with a telescope? Describe the motions of the Earth, Sun, Moon, and planets according to the Ptolemaic System. What were the principal difficulties with this picture? What about the Copernican system? Kepler's first t ...
Slide 1
... Highlands = light colored areas (almost as high as Mt. Everest!) Mare (Maria, pl.) = dark smooth areas (ancient beds of lava) Rilles are valleys or trenches. Regolith = soil-like layer ...
... Highlands = light colored areas (almost as high as Mt. Everest!) Mare (Maria, pl.) = dark smooth areas (ancient beds of lava) Rilles are valleys or trenches. Regolith = soil-like layer ...
Extra-Solar Planets
... Planets are plentiful The first planet orbiting another Sun-like star was discovered in 1995. We now know of 209 (Feb 07). Including several stars with more than one planet - true planetary systems ...
... Planets are plentiful The first planet orbiting another Sun-like star was discovered in 1995. We now know of 209 (Feb 07). Including several stars with more than one planet - true planetary systems ...
Time From the Perspective of a Particle Physicist
... massive and some small. The size of the largest stars in the cluster tells us how old all the stars in that cluster are. The oldest clusters are formed from the primordial material of the Universe (before stars existed) and their atomic composition is a fossil record from the first few minutes after ...
... massive and some small. The size of the largest stars in the cluster tells us how old all the stars in that cluster are. The oldest clusters are formed from the primordial material of the Universe (before stars existed) and their atomic composition is a fossil record from the first few minutes after ...
51) If Earth had twice its present mass, but the same radius
... 75) What is the gravitational field strength at the center of the Earth? 76) Are tides more likely to occur on a large planet or a small planet? Why? 77) According to Newton’s laws, a rock and a pebble will fall with the same acceleration in a gravitational field even though the gravitational force ...
... 75) What is the gravitational field strength at the center of the Earth? 76) Are tides more likely to occur on a large planet or a small planet? Why? 77) According to Newton’s laws, a rock and a pebble will fall with the same acceleration in a gravitational field even though the gravitational force ...
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... Analyzing Starlight 1. What information can be obtained from a star’s dark line spectrum? _____________________ _______________________________________________________________________ ...
... Analyzing Starlight 1. What information can be obtained from a star’s dark line spectrum? _____________________ _______________________________________________________________________ ...
Slide 1
... A galaxy is a collection of billions of stars, plus gas and dust, held together by gravity. There are billions of galaxies in the universe. ...
... A galaxy is a collection of billions of stars, plus gas and dust, held together by gravity. There are billions of galaxies in the universe. ...
Intro to Astronomy
... help of Galileo proposed a model where the sun is the center of solar system. This model was not well received, but it did explain the retrograde motion better then Ptolemy’s model. • Johannes Kepler added to Copernicus’s by changing the orbital paths to elliptical instead of circular. This explaine ...
... help of Galileo proposed a model where the sun is the center of solar system. This model was not well received, but it did explain the retrograde motion better then Ptolemy’s model. • Johannes Kepler added to Copernicus’s by changing the orbital paths to elliptical instead of circular. This explaine ...
Final Study Guide Questions Earth Science Spring 2016 Mr. Traeger 1
... What are the characteristics of the main moons of each planet? ...
... What are the characteristics of the main moons of each planet? ...
For each statement or question, select the word or expression that
... A. listen to radio waves B. view gamma ray images C. create microwaves D. split light into a spectrum ____ 4. Which of the following does not emit a continuous spectrum? A. glowing solid B. glowing liquid C. glowing thin gas D. hot, compressed gas ____ 5. What kind of spectrum is used to determine t ...
... A. listen to radio waves B. view gamma ray images C. create microwaves D. split light into a spectrum ____ 4. Which of the following does not emit a continuous spectrum? A. glowing solid B. glowing liquid C. glowing thin gas D. hot, compressed gas ____ 5. What kind of spectrum is used to determine t ...
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... Showing 661 planetary systems / 838 planets / 125 multiple planet systems as of 22/09/2012 Showing 750 planetary systems / 986 planets / 168 multiple planet systems as of 28/09/2013 Showing 1125 planetary systems / 1810 planets / 466 multiple planet systems as of 20/07/14 Showing 1160 planetary syst ...
... Showing 661 planetary systems / 838 planets / 125 multiple planet systems as of 22/09/2012 Showing 750 planetary systems / 986 planets / 168 multiple planet systems as of 28/09/2013 Showing 1125 planetary systems / 1810 planets / 466 multiple planet systems as of 20/07/14 Showing 1160 planetary syst ...
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... Little Dipper also consists of 7 stars and forms a small bowl. The Little Dipper is also part of Ursa Minor, and again NOT the same. How to find the Little Dipper & the Big Dipper You can find Big Dipper easily during every bright night here in the Netherlands. You can use it to find Polaris, which ...
... Little Dipper also consists of 7 stars and forms a small bowl. The Little Dipper is also part of Ursa Minor, and again NOT the same. How to find the Little Dipper & the Big Dipper You can find Big Dipper easily during every bright night here in the Netherlands. You can use it to find Polaris, which ...
Atoms (“indivisible”)
... Crust (3 g/cm3) - made of continental (granites) and oceanic (basalts) Mantle (3 - 5 g/cm3) - 2900 km thick layer; location of lithosphere & asthenosphere Core (10.5 g/cm3) - liquid Fe/Ni shell surrounding solid Fe/Ni center ...
... Crust (3 g/cm3) - made of continental (granites) and oceanic (basalts) Mantle (3 - 5 g/cm3) - 2900 km thick layer; location of lithosphere & asthenosphere Core (10.5 g/cm3) - liquid Fe/Ni shell surrounding solid Fe/Ni center ...
Extraterrestrial life
Extraterrestrial life is life that does not originate from Earth. It is also called alien life, or, if it is a sentient and/or relatively complex individual, an ""extraterrestrial"" or ""alien"" (or, to avoid confusion with the legal sense of ""alien"", a ""space alien""). These as-yet-hypothetical life forms range from simple bacteria-like organisms to beings with civilizations far more advanced than humanity. Although many scientists expect extraterrestrial life to exist, so far no unambiguous evidence for its existence exists.The science of extraterrestrial life is known as exobiology. The science of astrobiology also considers life on Earth as well, and in the broader astronomical context. Meteorites that have fallen to Earth have sometimes been examined for signs of microscopic extraterrestrial life. Since the mid-20th century, there has been an ongoing search for signs of extraterrestrial intelligence, from radios used to detect possible extraterrestrial signals, to telescopes used to search for potentially habitable extrasolar planets. It has also played a major role in works of science fiction. Over the years, science fiction works, especially Hollywood's involvement, has increased the public's interest in the possibility of extraterrestrial life. Some encourage aggressive methods to try to get in contact with life in outer space, whereas others argue that it might be dangerous to actively call attention to Earth.