Archives
- April 2024
- March 2024
- February 2024
- January 2024
- May 2023
- April 2023
- March 2023
- February 2023
- January 2023
- May 2022
- April 2022
- March 2022
- February 2022
- January 2022
- May 2021
- April 2021
- March 2021
- February 2021
- January 2021
- April 2020
- March 2020
- February 2020
- January 2020
- May 2019
- April 2019
- March 2019
- February 2019
- January 2019
- May 2018
- April 2018
- March 2018
- February 2018
- January 2018
- July 2017
- May 2017
- April 2017
- March 2017
- February 2017
- January 2017
- May 2016
- April 2016
- March 2016
- February 2016
- January 2016
- April 2015
- March 2015
- February 2015
- January 2015
- April 2014
- March 2014
- February 2014
- January 2014
- May 2013
- April 2013
- March 2013
- February 2013
- January 2013
- April 2012
- March 2012
- February 2012
Currently Used Categories
Tag Cloud
- astro201
- astro2110
- astronomy
- blog1
- blog2
- blog3
- blog4
- blog5
- blog6
- blog7
- blog8
- blog9
- blog10
- brahe
- Comets
- Copernicus
- earth
- Europa
- extremophiles
- galilei
- galileo
- gravity
- history
- HW2
- HW6
- jupiter
- Kepler
- life
- Mars
- me
- Moon
- NASA
- Newton
- planets
- pluto
- saturn
- Solar System
- space
- spacecraft
- technology
- telescopes
- tides
- Time
- Uncategorized
- venus
Tag Archives: cosmiccalendar
Cosmic Calendar Explained
Birthday’s are one of the most significant days for humans, it signifies the day that we’re born, and became really apart of the universe. But do we know the universe’s birthday? when was the universe created? to answer that question astrophysicists have been able to figure out that the age of the universe since the […] Continue reading
The Cosmic Calendar
Definition: a calendar in which the 14-billion-years of the universe’s existence, from the time of the Big Bang until this moment, are scaled to a period of one year. Origin: The idea of the Cosmic Calendar was first described by astronomer Carl Sagan on the original version of the television show Cosmos in 1980. KeyContinue reading “The Cosmic Calendar” Continue reading
Posted in Class, Universe
Tagged astro2110, blog1, cosmiccalendar, cosmos, Solar System, Time
Comments Off on The Cosmic Calendar
Our Entire Universe in One Year
Imagine if we were able to fit the history of our entire universe—from the Big Bang all the way up to today—into a single calendar year. That would be crazy right? Well look no further because that’s exactly what the Cosmic Calendar is. Created and popularized by Carl Sagan, the cosmic calendar compresses 14 billionContinue reading “Our Entire Universe in One Year” Continue reading
Posted in Class, Historical, Universe
Tagged astro2110, blog1, cosmiccalendar, history, Time
Comments Off on Our Entire Universe in One Year
The Cosmic Calendar
Did you know that the current age of the universe is 13.8 billion years? A useful instrument for visualizing the chronology and age of the universe is the cosmic calendar. With this cosmic calendar scale, the big bang takes place on January 1 at midnight and there are 37.8 million years per day. This isContinue reading “The Cosmic Calendar” Continue reading
Posted in Class, Universe
Tagged astro2110, blog1, cosmiccalendar
Comments Off on The Cosmic Calendar
The Last 2 Minutes of History
Down on Earth, it’s easy to think the passage of 100 years is a long time. After all, it’s certainly longer than a human’s life expectancy. However, after hearing that modern humans can only be accounted for in 2 minutes of history, it’s hard to believe that the time spanning from the origins of modern … Continue reading The Last 2 Minutes of History → Continue reading
Posted in Class, Universe
Tagged astro2110, blog1, cosmiccalendar
Comments Off on The Last 2 Minutes of History
The Last 2 Minutes of History
Down on Earth, it’s easy to think the passage of 100 years is a long time. After all, it’s certainly longer than a human’s life expectancy. However, after hearing that modern humans can only be accounted for in 2 minutes of history, it’s hard to believe that the time spanning from the origins of modern … Continue reading The Last 2 Minutes of History → Continue reading
Posted in Class, Universe
Tagged astro2110, blog1, cosmiccalendar
Comments Off on The Last 2 Minutes of History
The Universe in Dots
Let’s say the average human has a lifespan of 80 years. To make it a little easier on our calculations, we’ll bump it up to 100 years. Let’s represent that as a dot. The species Homo Sapiens has been around for roughly 200,000 years. If the human lifespan is shown as a single dot, the […] Continue reading
The Universe in Dots
Let’s say the average human has a lifespan of 80 years. To make it a little easier on our calculations, we’ll bump it up to 100 years. Let’s represent that as a dot. The species Homo Sapiens has been around for roughly 200,000 years. If the human lifespan is shown as a single dot, the […] Continue reading
The Cosmic Calendar
We, as humans, can have difficulty understanding amounts that exceed our narrow perspective. To aid us in understanding the 14 billion years that the universe has existed and the minuscule amount of time humans have inhabited it, scientists have put it in our terms of one year. Each month of the “cosmic calendar” represents roughly 1 … Continue reading “The Cosmic Calendar”
Continue reading
Posted in Class, Historical, Universe
Tagged astro2110, blog1, cosmiccalendar, Solar System, Time
Comments Off on The Cosmic Calendar
Cosmic Calendar: The Month of January
After studying the Cosmic Calendar, very little appears to have happened in “the first month of the universe.” Aside from the Big Bang in January and the formation of the Milky Way in March, most of the action begins in September, reaching a climax in December. Of course, the notion that little happened in the […]
Continue reading
Posted in Historical, Physics, Universe
Tagged astro2110, blog1, cosmiccalendar
Comments Off on Cosmic Calendar: The Month of January