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Final Thoughts..

Posted on April 27, 2023 by dougkyles422111

Blog 8? That doesn’t sound right. It feels like yesterday I designed my website and wrote my first post. Throughout the course of Astronomy 2110 I have explored the universe in many aspects. What sticks with me most, however, is how exactly we got to our current deep understanding of the universe.  Would Kepler have […] Continue reading →

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Call Me Maybe?

Posted on April 27, 2023 by dougkyles422111

Unfortunately, I come to the conclusion at the end of this class that it is extremely unlikely, and mathematically almost impossible, that we will receive any extraterrestrial contact within our lifetime. Reading about SETI makes me happy that humans have thought to reach out and prioritized it in a way (it is a very expensive […] Continue reading →

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I want to belive.. but I can’t!

Posted on April 9, 2023 by dougkyles422111

As I do so often, I would like to talk about the possibility of extraterrestrial life within the Universe. I will take this last blog as an opportunity to reflect on the things which I have been able to learn from the course as a whole as it relates to one of the topics I […] Continue reading →

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Pluto: If Size Doesn’t Matter, What Does?

Posted on April 9, 2023 by dougkyles422111

Pluto is one of the most underestimated discoveries of our solar system. What we expected to be a simple ice ball comet-like object in the very outreaches of our solar system ended up becoming one of the most interesting planetesimals that tell us a complex geology category. Many will know Pluto for its classification as […] Continue reading →

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A Climate in Crisis

Posted on March 7, 2023 by dougkyles422111

For this post, I’d like to increase my understanding of global warming because the book introduced to me the major process behind it. First off, I’d like to acknowledge that the climate crisis truly is one of the most difficult things we have globe have faced. We began on this Earth as a species tossed […] Continue reading →

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We Come in Peace! (If you can Find Us)

Posted on March 7, 2023 by dougkyles422111

It’s a common theme for me within this class to fixate on the possibility of life beyond Earth, and I’m glad to do that once again with today’s blog post. I want to respond to the book’s claim that life on Mars is an “extraordinary claim”. While it’s true the bold assertion like the one […] Continue reading →

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Evidence for Understanding

Posted on February 13, 2023 by dougkyles422111

I want to talk about an aspect of light that doesn’t make the most sense to me, and that is how we receive it. Thinking about sight abstractly, we cannot really comprehend at all times what we are seeing are particles of light. To us, our visual environment is our reality. Learning about how the […] Continue reading →

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Historical Astronomers in Context

Posted on February 2, 2023 by dougkyles422111

(For the above and later information on Brahe, I used Brittanica, the online encyclopedia)  Brahe’s life overlapped with Galileo 37 years and with Kepler 30 years Galileo’s life overlapped with Kepler 71 years  (Determined through calculations of the above dates)  (For this response I used the Ninth Edition of the Cosmic Perspective: The Solar System, […] Continue reading →

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Pondering Scale

Posted on January 20, 2023 by dougkyles422111

The Video “Powers of 10” impacted me so profoundly as I viewed it for the first time that I took a minute after watching to consider how insignificant we technically are in this universe. Earth may be the setting for every idea, individual or event that we know of, but there are infinite bounds of […] Continue reading →

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Introduction

Posted on January 16, 2023 by dougkyles422111

The above picture was taken by me during my time at Big Bend National Park in June 2021 Hello and welcome to my blog, which I’ve created to discuss some of the topics of my Astronomy class. I’m fairly new to Astronomy, but am definitely interested in all of the ideals it explores. For now, […] Continue reading →

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