Daily Archives: January 26, 2016

Eclipses Throughout History

Posted on January 26, 2016 by astr2110geoffren

Eclipse science! You’re just mowing grass one day and the sun disappears. You look up and see an eclipse. Today, people would just brush it off for the most part. There would be some oohs and ahhs, but most people would just treat it like any other day and probably forget about the occurrence a […] Continue reading →

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Vast Size and Scale of the Universe

Posted on January 26, 2016 by siyuan2016

Source:Getty We talked about the size and scale of our universe in the class last week, and here I’d like to add some interesting facts and discoveries in this field.Though we have already had some approximations about universe’s age,nowadays it is still hard to estimate the exact size of the it. With the development of […] Continue reading →

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Blog 1: Time travel

Posted on January 26, 2016 by paxtonastronomy

Last winter break, I saw Interstellar. While various aspects of the movie interested me, the thing that especially stood out was the focus on time and the complexities it holds. Although Interstellar clearly wasn’t completely accurate in its science, it still brought up different aspects of space travel that are legitimate. In my opinion, the […] Continue reading →

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Blog 1: Time travel

Posted on January 26, 2016 by paxtonastronomy

Last winter break, I saw Interstellar. While various aspects of the movie interested me, the thing that especially stood out was the focus on time and the complexities it holds. Although Interstellar clearly wasn’t completely accurate in its science, it still brought up different aspects of space travel that are legitimate. In my opinion, the […] Continue reading →

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Blog #2 | Zodiacs and Precession

Posted on January 26, 2016 by briannagalgano

I am never one to really pry much life into zodiac signs, or how they should tell about my personality or future. However, the zodiac constellations have some real hard science about them. Zodiacs signs corresponding to the constellation that the Sun is located in front of from our perspective on Earth. There is usually […] Continue reading →

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goddess of love

Posted on January 26, 2016 by ranibanjarian

Venus is many things. I don’t know much about it besides the fact that it is hot, orange, it’s the second planet in the solar system, and is the goddess of love in Roman mythology. On June 5th, 2012, a couple of days after I graduated from high school, my dad and I woke up at … Continue reading goddess of love → Continue reading →

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Sky Map

Posted on January 26, 2016 by solarsystemjoe

In our Solar System class, we’ve been using Stellarium to investigate the relative motion of constellations and our Sun.  Beyond the ability to lapse time, the features that were most helpful to me were the ones that labelled the constellations and drew lines in between the stars that formed these constellations. As an amateur astronomy student, I’ve […] Continue reading →

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Comprehension

Posted on January 26, 2016 by astr2110geoffren

The universe is massive. There are billions of people on this planet. There are billions of planets in our galaxy. There are billions of galaxies in our universe. And this is just in the observable universe, possibly just a small slice of the true universe. But does this really mean anything to people? Does mankind […] Continue reading →

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Information About Eclipses

Posted on January 26, 2016 by drgrundstrom

Here are some of my favorite sites for learning about eclipses (including the upcoming Great American Eclipse!): Mr. Eclipse (the guy NASA uses) NASA Eclipse Web Site eclipse2017.org (make sure to check out the AMAZING interactive Google map!) timeanddate.com (and their eclipse list) Of course, one can certainly use the Wikipedia article on Eclipses (you can […] Continue reading →

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magic

Posted on January 26, 2016 by ranibanjarian

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” – Arthur C Clarke’s third law. I stumbled on a little thing I had posted some time ago, early in September when friendships were still tentative and the air was still crisp. -We spent the weekend in a cabin four dirt trails off the everyday. At night we cracked open … Continue reading magic → Continue reading →

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