Author Archives: dayanel123

Gotta be Life out there

Posted on May 2, 2021 by dayanel123

Today we will be talking about extremophiles. After learning about all of the potential life that can survive in the harshest of environments, it made me think that there must be life out there. What may seem like a super hot, extremely pressurized environment to us on Venus, may seem like the ideal conditions forContinue reading “Gotta be Life out there” Continue reading →

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Theia

Posted on May 1, 2021 by dayanel123

For my last blog post I have decided to blog about something close to home. The Theia impact is also called the Big Splash, and is a hypothesis as to how we got our moon. The theory is that a mars-sized planetesimal impacted our proto-earth in its early life. This massive impact essentially shredded TheiaContinue reading “Theia” Continue reading →

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Kepler-452b

Posted on April 13, 2021 by dayanel123

You are probably looking at the title of this post and wondering “what?” I would be too. What is Kepler-452b? Is it a theory? A concept? A principle? The correct answer is that it is a name. But a name for what? Kepler-452b is the name of an exoplanet (a planet outside our solar system).Continue reading “Kepler-452b” Continue reading →

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Kuiper Belt Objects (woah)

Posted on April 12, 2021 by dayanel123

Was I the only one who thought that only the 8 main planets that everyone knows about + Pluto and a couple other dwarf planets, asteroids, and comets here or there were the only things that orbited our sun? Yeah well, I am very wrong, and if you thought that too, so are you :0.Continue reading “Kuiper Belt Objects (woah)” Continue reading →

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Middle Man Mars

Posted on March 17, 2021 by dayanel123

The terrestrial worlds are known to be Mercury, Venus, Earth, the moon, and Mars. While they all have some similarities to one another, like rocky surfaces and much smaller sizes than relative to the remaining planets in the solar system, they also have many differences. Venus and Earth are alike in ways that the otherContinue reading “Middle Man Mars” Continue reading →

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Wormholes

Posted on March 16, 2021 by dayanel123

Ever wonder what exactly a wormhole is? The concept behind a wormhole basically is a way to shortcut your way to a distance extremely far away. I tend to think of it as having two dots on a piece of paper, and then folding that paper in half to have the point laying on topContinue reading “Wormholes” Continue reading →

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Why we Should Thank our Atmosphere

Posted on February 24, 2021 by dayanel123

On the spectrum of light, the two most energetic rays are x-rays and Gamma rays. They have the shortest wave lengths meaning they have the highest frequency and energy. Both Gamma and x-rays differ from everything else on the spectrum because they can penetrate clothing and skin. This is important because when Gamma rays passContinue reading “Why we Should Thank our Atmosphere” Continue reading →

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Historical Astronomers in Context

Posted on February 15, 2021 by dayanel123

The Astronomer I chose was Nicholas Copernicus. Copernicus is important because he was the first person to suggest the idea of our world being heliocentric; he first thought of the sun being the center of our solar system, and that Earth orbits around the sun. This theory, is the one that we know to beContinue reading “Historical Astronomers in Context” Continue reading →

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How big the Universe is, and What it is Full of

Posted on February 4, 2021 by dayanel123

Almost daily I complain about how far the walk is from Sutherland House to Poke Bros. I think to myself “agh this campus is so big.” Big, of course, is relative to how long my strides are, and in reality the 1.6 miles I am away from Poke Bros is nothing. Right now the observableContinue reading “How big the Universe is, and What it is Full of” Continue reading →

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Introduction

Posted on January 28, 2021 by dayanel123

Hi I’m Evan from Chicago IL. I’m studying HOD & Econ and am very eager to learn more about the solar system in this class. Here is a picture of me and my brother in Paris because I like to travel, and a hyperlink to vandy’s website because I love my school. Continue reading →

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