Author Archives: mchastr2110

OGLE-2016-BLG-1195Lb or The Iceball Planet

Posted on April 27, 2017 by mchastr2110

(ScienceDaily) Yesterday, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) announced the discover of a new planet orbiting the star much fainter than our sun, but, it is of similar size to earth and a similar distance to earth. In fact, this is actually the smallest planet ever discovered using a technique called microlensing (ScienceDaily). Microlensing utilizes the … Continue reading OGLE-2016-BLG-1195Lb or The Iceball Planet Continue reading →

Posted in Exoplanets | Tagged , , | Comments Off on OGLE-2016-BLG-1195Lb or The Iceball Planet

Blog 4: Voyager Mission

Posted on April 5, 2017 by mchastr2110

(NASA) The voyager mission consists of 2 spacecrafts, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2. The purpose of their mission is to explore the farther reaches of our Solar System. This area is defined by NASA as “beyond the neighborhood of the outer planets to the outer limits of the Sun’s sphere of influence” (NASA). However, both … Continue reading Blog 4: Voyager Mission Continue reading →

Posted in Space Travel | Tagged , | Comments Off on Blog 4: Voyager Mission

Blog 3: Cosmic Background Radiation

Posted on February 15, 2017 by mchastr2110

A radiation that is an after-effect of the Big Bang still around today. It was actually discovered accidentally by two Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson in 1965. They noticed a static that appeared to be coming from every direction at the same strength. Later scientists were able to trace out a Black Body curve for … Continue reading Blog 3: Cosmic Background Radiation Continue reading →

Posted in Class, Physics, Universe | Tagged , , | Comments Off on Blog 3: Cosmic Background Radiation

Blog 2: Celestial Navigation

Posted on February 15, 2017 by mchastr2110

Even though astronomers use scales such as arcseconds and arcminutes to measure certain distances between stars, the main tool of celestial navigation, the sextant, is only able to measure arcminutes. The sextant uses reflection in order to find the angle of celestial objects. Traditionally, the sextant has two mirrors. The horizon mirror is stationary and … Continue reading Blog 2: Celestial Navigation Continue reading →

Posted in Class, Instruments | Tagged , , , | Comments Off on Blog 2: Celestial Navigation

Blog 1: The Speed of Light And Refractive Index

Posted on February 15, 2017 by mchastr2110

Light travels at a velocity incredibly difficult for us to comprehend other then as just a very, very large number. To be exact, light travels at a constant velocity of 299,792,458 m/s within a vacuum. This is not the same for light traveling through other conditions. When light does travel through things other then a … Continue reading Blog 1: The Speed of Light And Refractive Index Continue reading →

Posted in Class, Light, Physics | Tagged , | Comments Off on Blog 1: The Speed of Light And Refractive Index

First blog post

Posted on January 19, 2017 by mchastr2110

This is your very first post. Click the Edit link to modify or delete it, or start a new post. If you like, use this post to tell readers why you started this blog and what you plan to do with it. Continue reading →

Posted in Class | Tagged , , | Comments Off on First blog post