Astro2110 – The Solar System | Aggregating the class blogs of Astro2110 at Vanderbilt

Bonnaroo 2013

Posted on January 13, 2014 by mariah0407

by me

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First Post!

Posted on January 13, 2014 by Chad F

By me.

A picture of my family on the day I was dropped off at Vanderbilt last year in front of the dorm where I am now an RA.

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We like to have fun here ;)

Posted on January 13, 2014 by juliamac17

by Vanessa Fu

The seniors at our last concert!

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Introductory Post

Posted on January 13, 2014 by ilman

Figure 1.1. A picture of me at Virginia Beach during last year’s spring break.

It was very cold, and I was probably thinking something along the line of “hmm, isn’t it amazing how there are more stars out there than the grains of sand on this beach, I should get some thicker clothes”.

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To infinity and beyond…

Posted on January 12, 2014 by jblubin

To infinity and beyond

Me as an astronaut. Brought to you from Space City itself: Houston, TX. Photo credit: Dad.

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Hello WordPress

Posted on January 12, 2014 by dhbrett

This is my first post, and it includes a picture of me:

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The Very First Post

Posted on January 12, 2014 by claremcdaniel

Taken by me (it’s a selfie)!

Hi y’all. Dr. Grundstrom left the prompt for this introductory post mostly open-ended, so I assume I’ve been given free rein to say what I please.

I’m Clare, and this is my blog for Astronomy 201: The Solar System, taught at Vanderbilt University in the spring of 2014 by Dr. G. I’m a sophomore, I’m 21 (luckily) and I’m an English major. What else is there, you know what I mean?

P.S. The blog takes its title and tagline from the Sara Bareilles song of the same name.

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The enigma that is the Universe

Posted on January 12, 2014 by asadpabani

Hubble Space Telescope. Magic in action!

http://www.dailygalaxy.com/.a/6a00d8341bf7f753ef019b0045fa58970d-pi

It is worth thinking about that we just discovered a galaxy that is 30 billion light years away. 30 billion light years! For those of you not familiar with how light years work, 1 light year is the distance covered by light in one year. So a galaxy 30 billion light years away is so far away that it would take light 30 billion years to travel there. The mystery however is that the Universe by all modern calculations is roughly around 13.7 billion years old. If this is true, then how could light possibly have had enough time to travel from this far away galaxy to get to us? Oh the wonders of the world.