is veiled by the delicious flavors. As you pull the Dark Chocolate Milky Way away from your lips, a wisp of the golden caramel stretches toward the whisper of a smile on your face before finally breaking away. Now, would you want this experience to be wasted on an undeserving student? Wouldn’t you rather give the candy to a student who is responsible, organized, and smart--a student like me? I am the best candidate for the Candy Bar Challenge for multiple reasons. For one, I get all A’s and I have
The Milky Way http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/messier/more/mw_sky.html The Milky Way is the home of our Solar System along with at least 200 billion other stars and planets. It contains thousands of clusters and nebulas. It is the home of nearly all the objects of Messier’s catalog that aren’t their own galaxies. The mass of our giant galaxy is somewhere between 750 billion and one trillion solar masses. The diameter is estimated to be about 100,000 light years. The galaxy has three main
Our galaxy also known as the Milky Way, with reference to a Greek word galaktos mean- ing milk, is the most studied galaxy. It is also referred as the Galaxy. A part of it can be seen on clear dark nights as a faint white band of light stretching across the sky. Study of its constituent stars will help to understand its structure and evolution. The structure of it is the intense subject of many studies for the last four centuries. A brief account of it is given here. In 1610s, Galileo Galilei using
That’s huge! The Milky Way, the galaxy in which we live in, is one of about 170 billion galaxies in the observable universe. Our Sun is one of the billions of stars in our galaxy, and our eight planets revolve around this star in only a tiny part of our galaxy. “The Earth’s solar system is believed to exist very close to the Galaxy’s galactic plane, due to the fact that the Milky Way essentially divides the night sky into two virtually equal hemispheres” ("All About the Milky"). It definitely makes
few examples will be described in the following pages. An examination of the term “galactic interaction” does not immediately convey much in the way of understanding as to exactly what happens during one of these events. The problem is that the word “interaction” is fairly ambiguous, yet it must be so because two galaxies can interact in so many ways that literally every interaction we observe is a unique event (depending on how close one looks at the details). Changing the mass ratios, the angle
A Galaxy is an enormous collection of billions of stars, gas and dust held together by the force of gravity. Our sun and all the other visible stars in the night sky belong to the Milky Way galaxy. The entire Milky Way galaxy itself contains over 200 billion stars with an average separation of 5 light years between each of them. Similarly, there are billions of other galaxies are existing in our unimaginably vast Universe. Galaxies come in different shapes and sizes. They were first classified according
period-luminosity relationship amongst Cepheid variable stars would forever change the way we perceive the universe and known galaxies as well as lay the foundation for astronomers such as Harlow Shapley, Hertzsprung, and Edwin Hubble to expand our knowledge of the universe. The androcentric view of history often fails to acknowledge the achievements of notable women who have made profound impacts that have revolutionized the way in which we see the world, as well as the universe. Although the modernized 21st
and a visionary, who went beyond the confines of his time to seek more and see farther out into the universe, on route making major discoveries and contributions into the vast field of astronomy. Edwin Hubble’s exemplary work has revolutionized the way that scientists and astronomers presently look at the universe. After serving in World War I, Hubble accepted a position at California’s Mount Wilson Observatory to help build the Hooker telescope, at the time, world’s largest telescope measuring 2
you include? You might put in your country, city and street. By way of comparison, let’s call the Milky Way galaxy earth’s “country,” the solar system consisting the Sun and the planets, “city,” and earth’s orbit within the solar system earth’s “street.” Thanks to advances in astronomy and physics, scientists have gained deep insights into the value of our specific spot in the universe. First of all the earths country; the “The Milky Way ”. In the universe there are about 200 billion galaxies. Each
Black holes are one of the many amazing unexplainable wonders around the world. Black holes are also very abundant in many galaxies especially the Milky Way. There is believed to be at least over ten million black holes scattered around the Milky Way galaxy alone. In every galaxy there is a supermassive black hole that is at least billions of times as big as the sun and it is big enough to swallow the whole solar system. The first black hole was discovered in 1971 and John Wheeler, an American astronomer
Olbers’ Paradox is one of the many topics of cosmology. In principle, there seems to be nothing surprising in the black color of the night. Earth turns on itself, so that part of the Earth is kept lit by the sun, while another part remains 'dark '. A priori this may seem like a correct answer, but it is something that is too short. The universe does not end in the Sun, and the amount of additional stars who accompanies us in the universe is estimated at the not inconsiderable figure of 3.2 × 10
Investigating the History of the Universe and the Big Bang Theory The Big Bang theory is a theory that states that the universe originated as a single mass, which subsequently exploded. The entire universe was once all in a hot and dense ball, but about 20 million years ago, it exploded. This explosion hurled material all over the place and all mater and space was created at that point in time. The gas that was hurled out cooled and became our stellar system. A red shift is a shift towards longer
While studying the solar system in our eighth grade science class, we were each assigned a constellation to research. The constellation that was assigned to me was Cepheus. In this paper my goal is to explain the myth behind this constellation and describe its features. To achieve my goal, I have organized my paper into three main sections, one of which has sub-sections. In the first section, I will explain the Greek mythology that is associated with the constellation Cepheus. In the second
Quasars Since their discovery, the nature of quasars has been one of the most intriguing and baffling problems as evidenced by the following quotations: " the problem of understanding quasi-stellar objects… is one of the most important and fascinating tasks in all physics" - G.Burbidge and Hoyle. "The quasar continues to rank both as one of the most baffling objects in the universe and one most capable of inspiring heated argument" - Morrison. "The redshift problem is one of the most
the sources and advancement of these cosmic systems. There is a verbal confrontation between two particular speculations clarifying the development of systems. The first is that soon after the enormous detonation around 14 billion years prior, giving way gas and tidy mists may have lead to the development of systems. The second hypothesis, which has picked up quality as of late, says the youthful universe contained some little "irregularities" of matter, which bunched together to frame cosmic systems
Located in the southern hemisphere, it was included in Ptolemy's 48 constellations in the second century, and is recognised among the 88 today. It contains 8 main stars and has 32 stars with Bayer/Flamsteed designations. These unseen stars come from a cluster known as M41 which is about 2,300 light years away. Even a small telescope will reveal the swarm of several thousand stars just under Sirius. Canis Major's second-brightest star is Adhara, placed within the Dogs leg. Adhara is 425 light years
With this information the significance in the constellation’s location can be shown. Orion has a declination of 5°, meaning it is visible to people from both the northern and southern hemispheres. With this known it is understandable why it is one of the most recognised patterns in the sky, although it does appear differently oriented depending on where the observers are located. History: The constellation Orion is named after a giant huntsman in Greek Mythology. The arrangement of the stars somewhat
Nine Stages of Divine Vision Nine stages of life are formed by nine crises that shape our awareness and the way we envision and experience the divine in both our cultural and isolated lives. Out vision of the divine is determined by the unique forms and forces in each stage of our lives. The first stage is the unborn stage of the womb. The first part of the first stage is the unborn womb. Since the womb is almost perfect for our prenatal needs, there is an incomparable experience of Kinesthetic
Although they seem to be two foggy patches possibly torn from the Milky Way, astronomers believe these are actually small galaxies gravitationally bound to the Milky Way like moons around a giant planet. The two Clouds of Magellan are like binary stars that gravity draws together to form a satellite galaxy. Of all the galaxies in the entire Universe these are the closest to our galactic system. About 170,000 light-years away from the Milky Way galaxy lie the Large Magellanic Cloud. With only 15 billion
How the Big Bang Evolved into Life On Earth Should we as humans expect to find intelligent life elsewhere in the Universe? There are many reasons for and against this concept, but first we should trace just how our terrestrial life started. The beginning of time and the universe began with the Big Bang. This was an explosion that started the expansion of the universe. In the most basic sense, the standard model is simply the idea that every bit of the matter and energy in the universe was once