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Daily Archives: January 26, 2016
The Cosmic Calendar
If you ever feel old, take a quick look at the cosmic calendar. We are young. Very young. Even our grandparents and young. You may disagree with me- but allow me to explain. The cosmic calendar puts everything that has happened in the history of our universe onto a gregorian calendar (what we use today). […]
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The Cosmic Calendar
If you ever feel old, take a quick look at the cosmic calendar. We are young. Very young. Even our grandparents and young. You may disagree with me- but allow me to explain. The cosmic calendar puts everything that has happened in the history of our universe onto a gregorian calendar (what we use today). […] Continue reading
Are we at the center of the Universe?
It’s not surprising that at first, humans believed in a geocentric universe. When you look up at the night sky while standing on earth, it appears as though the sun, moon, and stars are moving around the earth. Now of course we know that this effect is actually due to the rotation of the earth […]
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Are we at the center of the Universe?
It’s not surprising that at first, humans believed in a geocentric universe. When you look up at the night sky while standing on earth, it appears as though the sun, moon, and stars are moving around the earth. Now of course we know that this effect is actually due to the rotation of the earth […] Continue reading
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Tagged astro2110, astronomy, blog2, Geocentic, geocentrism, stabilized gifs
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Fuller-Mooning in the Winter
Whoa there. Before you flag this post as inappropriate, answer this question. Was this photo taken at noon or at midnight? If you answered midnight, congratulations! And surprisingly enough, this stunning photo of a full moon could only have been photographed in the winter. But why winter? Don’t we get full moons year-round? This is […]
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Chase’s Solar System blog 2016-01-26 19:46:22
Earth’s Elliptical Orbit and Seasons Though a common misconception about the cause of seasons is that they are caused by the Earth’s distance to the Sun, in actuality, seasons are caused by Earth’s 23 degree axial tilt. But why do changes in Earth’s distance from the Sun have virtually no effect on temperatures on Earth? […]
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Stargazing: There’s an App for That!
Source: Google Play Ever look up at the sky and wonder what that one bright star is called? Well there’s an app for that! Google Sky Map allows the user to hold their phone up to the sky, day or night, and scan the area for constellations, planets, and more. It has features similar to those […]
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Life as a .05 Second Year-Old
In the novel, In Desert and Wilderness, Henryk Sienkiewicz remarks, “…he began to fear whether in the presence of far greater events, all his acts would not fade into insignificance, just as a drop of rain disappears into the sea.”On the Cosmic Calendar, the average human life span is only about two tenths of a second, […]
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Mayans Predicted the 1991 Solar Eclipse
Okay so this picture may look like just a bunch of doodles on a piece of clay, but it actually is hieroglyphs from four ancient Mayan codices that predict with surprising accuracy the 1991 Solar Eclipse. The Mayan astronomers were able to predict within a day, the time of the 1991 solar eclipse. Keep in […]
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The Speed of Light
The speed of light is very, very fast, almost incomprehensibly fast. It is unusual to think that whenever we see an object, light is bouncing off that object and hitting our eye. We perceive this to be instantaneous, but it actually takes some infinitesimal amount of time for light to travel from nearby objects to […]
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