The Geology of the Moon Approximately 4.5 billion years ago a large asteroid struck Earth and thus resulted in the Moon. This impact theory suggests that the collision ejected raw materials which in time became the Moon. With the Moon having no significant atmosphere, it can reserve a good record of the impact history. This information can provide geologists with clues to the history of the Earth. The crust of the Moon is composed of a variation of primary elements, including uranium, oxygen, thorium, potassium, silicon, magnesium, iron, titanium, calcium, aluminum and hydrogen.
Developing nuclear power use in space and as a propulsion system would be beneficial for space exploration and scientific research by allowing the National Aeronautic Space Administration (NASA) to explore farther and have faster travel times within the solar system and galaxy, by providing substantial power for manned exploration to other planetary bodies, and by allowing space probes and satellites to carry more instruments and operate longer. Nuclear propulsion allows for farther and faster travel times within the solar system and galaxy. The current propulsion system used by all space agencies is chemical propulsion. Chemical propulsion involves igniting millions of pounds of rocket fuel to produce thrust. Chemical propulsion is the only way to get spacecraft from the surface of the planet but once in space, it’s a different story.
The earth’s atmosphere was limiting how far we could see into space, so astronomers decided to bypass the atmosphere. The idea of a space telescope has been around for many decades, but only recently became a reality. The first proposal of a space telescope can be traced back to nineteen twenty three. Hermann Oberth known as the inventor of modern rocketry technology proposed that a telescope could be sent into space using a rocket. In the nineteen seventies the vision for a space telescope would become a reality.
Also, she argues that Most of the light is X-rays, but a tail of emission extends to longer, ultraviolet and optical wavelengths. Other example provided by the author is the Galaxy Evolution Explorer known as GALEX. This is a telescope launched in 2003, observes ultraviolet radiation, but according with Gezari the use of the GALEX to search among galaxies and find tidal disruption was a good idea because the astronomers found the three luminous ultraviolet flares coming from normal-looking galaxies. The author proves that the three flares came from gas glowing at
Then Aristo researched the Milky Way. Aristo's ideas about the Milky Way were token shape with combustion of stars. Then Ibn-i Heysem, Ibn Bacce, Ibn Kayyim El Cevziyye explored the Milky Way. The first time Galileo Galile explored with a telescope. The Milky Way can be detected in this line even with a small telescope.
It also enhanced my understanding of how every element of the cosmos coexists infinitely. However, my emphasis in this project is clarifying my understanding of the theory that our universe was birthed from a black hole in another universe. In this essay, I will attempt to thoroughly describe supermassive black holes and how a black hole could possibly lead to the big bang, and what exactly this wormhole theory entails. Every galaxy’s central bulge is a supermassive black hole. Scientists have discovered this through implementing adaptive optics, which are used in astronomical telescopes to pierce through the blur of earth’s atmosphere in order to see the center of each galaxy.
Telescopes have really opened our eyes much wider into the knowledge of the universe. In the beginning of times telescopes showed that our Earth is not the center of the universe because those were the beliefs beforehand. Telescopes also showed the surface of the moon and how it was hilly and mountainous and had craters all over it (Mason, 2008). With more time telescopes showed the geography and climate of the entire solar system. Telescopes helped discover many new planets and asteroids which ultimately led to the theory of the speed of light, Telescopes have helped astronomers understand gravity and its role on the Earth (Mason, 2008).
Astronomers detected the alien world as it passed in front of its sun, a red dwarf star 40 light years away in a constellation called Ophiuchus, after the Greek for "snake holder". The discovery, made with a network of amateur telescopes, is being hailed as a major step forward in the search for planets beyond our solar system that are hospitable to life as we know it. Measurements suggest the planet is shrouded in a thick atmosphere of hydrogen and helium that blocks visible light from its sun, plunging the watery surface into permanent darkness. The weight of the atmosphere keeps the water liquid despite it being a searing 120C to 282C. Writing in the journal Nature, David Charbonneau at the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics describes how his team used a suite of eight amateur-sized telescopes to spot the planet as it moved across the face of its star, which is less than 0.5% as bright as our own sun.
Deepest depression= Mare Crisium on moon. Mariner 10- dynamo theory predicted mercury was spinning to slow for magnetic field. Earths structure- thick mantle, surrounded by 2 part crust. Its atmosphere has oxygen that lies right above the surface and a magnetosphere higher up. Its magnetic field indicates large amounts of molten nickel and iron in outer core.
Life Cycle of a Star Pamela Hughes May 17, 2011 SCI/151 Norman Stradleigh Life Cycle of a Star On a clear dark night, one can see thousands of stars. We can see many stars but could never dream of being able to count them all. Even though each individual star is unique, all stars share much in common. The Sun, which is the source of virtually all light, heat, and energy reaching the Earth, is the nearest star. Today, we know that stars are born from interstellar gas clouds, shine by nuclear fusion and then die, sometimes in dramatic ways.