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Monthly Archives: January 2018
Blog 1: Total Solar Eclipse 2017
This image was made by the NASA Visualization Explorer to show the path of totality of the 2017 solar eclipse. A solar eclipse occurs when the moon passes between the sun and the earth. As the moon blocks the sun, it casts on a shadow on earth that travels west to east very quickly due … Continue reading Blog 1: Total Solar Eclipse 2017 Continue reading
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Blog 1: Total Solar Eclipse 2017
This image was made by the NASA Visualization Explorer to show the path of totality of the 2017 solar eclipse. A solar eclipse occurs when the moon passes between the sun and the earth. As the moon blocks the sun, it casts on a shadow on earth that travels west to east very quickly due … Continue reading Blog 1: Total Solar Eclipse 2017 Continue reading
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Super Blue Blood Moon Blue Snow Super Blood Blue
Or something like that. Wow! On January 31st, 3 lunar events will coincide for the first time since March of 1866 resulting in the Moon appearing bigger, redder, and also bluer? This is what cool scientists call a “Super Blue Blood Moon.” When the Moon is at its perigee, the closest point to Earth in … Continue reading Super Blue Blood Moon Blue Snow Super Blood Blue → Continue reading
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Eagles
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Eagles
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My First Post
Greetings fellow astronomers! I look forward to a fun-filled semester blogging with you all!
Below is a picture of me (the left), my brother, and our friends when we visited New York City!
New York Trip (by me)
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How Fast Light Travels
We all know light travels fast, but do you know how fast it can be? The answer 299,792 kilometers in a second. The fact is, if you can travel as fast as light, you could go around the Earth seven and a half times in just one second. Theoretically, there is nothing runs faster than … Continue reading How Fast Light Travels → Continue reading
Faster than Expected
The universe is expanding faster than was originally expected. Just recently, NASA has adjusted the Hubble constant to 45.5 miles per second per megaparsec. This translates into a doubling of the size of the universe in 9.8 billion ears. AHHHH crazy! This adjustments is to correct for the increase in speed that the universe is actually … Continue reading Faster than Expected Continue reading
Andromeda and the Size of the Universe
In 2015, Hubble was able to take the most detailed image of Andromeda ever taken. The image had a pixel density of 69.536×22,230 pixels. The picture was taken using 7398 exposures. Images like this really put into light how vast the universe is. In the video, they focus in on a shot of the … Continue reading Andromeda and the Size of the Universe → Continue reading
Hello
by me
Pathfinder stuff I guess
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