Category Archives: Class

Introduction

Posted on January 14, 2024 by Thomas Shelton

Hello everyone, my name is Thomas Shelton and I’m a sophomore here at Vanderbilt. My favorite baseball team is the New York Mets. Continue reading →

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Introduction

Posted on January 13, 2024 by Adriana Santos

Hi all! My name is Adriana and I am so excited to share some of my favorite astronomy findings with you all this semester! I promise I’ll try not to just excitedly yell about them. I am a senior majoring in Communication Studies and as you can probably guess from my image, I am a […] Continue reading →

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INTRODUCTORY POST

Posted on January 13, 2024 by katie shapiro

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Introductory Post

Posted on January 13, 2024 by Owen Purcell

This is my test post to see if this actually if going to work.  This is my hyperlink: https://my.vanderbilt.edu/astro201solarsys/ Continue reading →

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Introduction

Posted on January 13, 2024 by Rachel Koh

Hey everyone! My name is Rachel Koh, and I am a physics and computer science major from Malaysia. This is my first astronomy class, and I’m excited to learn about our solar system with Dr. G and all my classmates! The solar system was my introduction to astronomy (and astrophysics) as a kid, and I […] Continue reading →

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Introductory Post

Posted on January 12, 2024 by Angela Harris

This is a picture of my hometown Annapolis, Maryland!  Continue reading →

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Overview

Posted on January 12, 2024 by Landon Peaden

BBC Sky at Night Magazine The incomprehensible scale of the universe is intimidating to most people. Forget feeling insignificant or small on Earth as one person out of 8 billion. That’s nowhere near how it feels to realize that when the scope of the universe is concerned, Earth and humanity are much, much less than […] Continue reading →

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For my 2024 class…

Posted on January 9, 2024 by drgrundstrom

If you’re in my 2024 Solar System class, please put a comment here showing that you’ve found my blog and that you’re following it :)  Please include your first name.  Note that you MUST be logged in to your own WordPress blog when commenting or else you’re doing it wrong! Also make sure you have bookmarked […] Continue reading →

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Psychrophiles!

Posted on April 30, 2023 by lightwyrs

Extremophiles are organisms that can live in extreme environments. There are many different environments in which extremophiles live in, but I am going to talk about one of them: pyschrophiles! Psychrophiles are organisms that have adapted to perpetually freezing environments. These environments include deep seas and polar regions. These bacteria survive in these temperatures by […] Continue reading →

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Black Hole

Posted on April 30, 2023 by niqretnuh

When I was a kid, I struggled to understand the meaning of a “black hole”. I was baffled how an object can suck in everything around it and never be full. In elementary school, my science teacher told us that “your chair were to contract indefinitely, it will become a black hole that will be […] Continue reading →

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