Monthly Archives: January 2022

Nashville’s Partial Lunar Eclipse

Posted on January 30, 2022 by AndreaS

Last November, Nashville witnessed a near-total lunar eclipse. Many of you likely remember hearing about it on the news or even stayed up late to see it – but why the commotion? What made this particular event noteworthy? To understand this, we will first explore the phenomena of lunar eclipses in general. Lunar eclipses occur […] Continue reading →

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Can We Travel Faster Than the Speed of Light (like in Star Wars)?

Posted on January 30, 2022 by josephmaquino9

One interesting question that has crossed many minds is, “Can humans travel at the speed of light?” Movies like Star Wars and Star Trek seem to believe that we can travel at, or even exceed, the speed of light (300,000,000 m/s) as they depict spaceships capable of jumping into hyperspace. In order to assess this […] Continue reading →

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The Speed of Light (or so we think)

Posted on January 29, 2022 by Karan Bhardwaj

To measure the speed of anything, the simplest thing to do is to measure how long it takes to travel a known distance. By dividing the distance over the time, we obtain the speed: Speed = Distance / Time However, measuring the speed of light is not so easy. Colloquially known as about 3 x […] Continue reading →

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How Big is the Universe?

Posted on January 29, 2022 by jschorr21

The universe is so big that we can’t even begin to comprehend its true size. First, we can look close to home and realize how big even our own Solar System is. The moon is the furthest place humans have voyaged, sitting at about 200,000 miles away. The next planet over(Mars), however, can be up […] Continue reading →

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blog post 01

Posted on January 29, 2022 by graceward02

Solstices and Equinoxes The winter/summer solstices are, respectively, the shortest and longest periods of sunlight during the calendar year. The vernal/autumnal equinoxes are days in which the amount of time the day has with sunlight and without are of equal length. Days that are solstices/equinoxes demonstrate the formal change in seasons. This occurs because the […] Continue reading →

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Blog 1 – Solar and Lunar Eclipses

Posted on January 29, 2022 by parallaxHubble

Hello everyone, the topic that I am choosing to blog about this week is the similarities and differences between solar eclipses and lunar eclipses. Firstly, we can define an eclipse as a moment in time in which one celestial body, be it a moon, planet, asteroid, or star, effectively blocks out a significant portion ofContinue reading “Blog 1 – Solar and Lunar Eclipses” Continue reading →

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What’s your real zodiac sign?

Posted on January 29, 2022 by evang914

If you ask anyone what their zodiac sign is, chances are they will be able to give you a quick response. I happen to be an Aquarius, which makes me both assertive and easy-going…? At least according to this Cosmopolitan article, I am. Anyway, most people probably don’t know that their zodiac sign, which isContinue reading “What’s your real zodiac sign?” Continue reading →

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Galactic Time Travel

Posted on January 29, 2022 by timmyshaheen

In the picture above, Leia looks towards the night sky and the lights of the stars from her Galaxy. She remarks how the light from the destruction of her planet has yet to reach them yet, and she imagines that she could just get into a spaceship and go see her planet alive and well. […] Continue reading →

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Eclipses of the Past

Posted on January 29, 2022 by isaiandrade01

Due to advancements in technology, we can easily explain the scientific reasoning behind astronomical events such as lunar and solar eclipses. We understand solar eclipses occur in the new moon phase when the Moon passes between the Sun and Earth, appearing to cover the Sun and cast its shadow on the Earth. The opposite is […] Continue reading →

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Phases of the Earth

Posted on January 28, 2022 by jesszhang782

If you live on Earth, you can probably picture the Moon cycling through its different phases in the sky. But have you ever thought about what it would look like if you lived on the Moon and saw Earth in the sky? Turns out Earth has phases too. Similar … Continue reading →

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