Thursday, October 16, 2008

Two sides to every story

By changing the number of the suitable stars and lowering the number of stars that form into planets, it decreases the number of communicating civilizations in our Milky Way. By increasing the amount of suitable stars and stars that form to planets it increases the amount of possible communicating civilizations in our planet.

Friday, October 10, 2008

Black Holes

1) Jets of Gas, Accretion Disk, Event Horizon

2) Black hole is made by gravity and the gravity is so great in a black hole that once something is sucked in it can not return.

3) We observe the effects of the stars and gas that is close to one.

4) The radius of the event horizon around a black hole.

5) Einstein developed the equation that showed the speed of light, but it has been discovered that even objects moving at the speed of light can not escape a black hole.

Thursday, September 25, 2008

James Webb Telescope

a) Mostly sees infrared light but can see some visible light

b) Prototype

c) Unknown

d) uses mostly mirror

Friday, September 19, 2008

Stellar Spectra

1) Absorbtion Spectra

2) More likely to happen in close objects because when you are closer to things they appear to move more then objects that are far away

3) Time and Brightness

4) The Core

5) Magnitude is based on distance and how bright a star is and intensity is how intense the light is that is given off

Sunday, September 14, 2008

Annie Cannon

Here are some of my dreams at this point in my life. After high school I would like to go to UNI, and be an athletic trainer or a physical therapist. When I am done with college I would like to move to California for a year or so. After California I would like to come back home to Iowa and settle down and have a family. When all my kids are in college I would like to travel around different countries with my husband and just explore the world.

Thursday, September 11, 2008

Electromagnetic Radiation

Life would be alot different without Radiation. For example we might not be able to listen to the radio or t.v. because there would be no radio waves and there wouldn't be such things as cell phones because you wouldn't be able to hear each other because of the lack of radio waves, you wouldn't even be able to cook with a microwave.

What is up with Mercury?

A) Rotates 3 times in 2 of its years

B) The intensity of the radio wave decreased as it went from Earth to Mercury

C)It means Mercury was rotating

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

The Moons of Jupiter

A) The closer the moons are to Jupiter the more spiky and close-fitted the data is.

B) Because it showed the rotation of the moons around Jupiter just like the planets around the sun.

C)Its the closest moon to Jupiter and it moves extremely fast.

D) It explains the laws of planetary motion.

Tuesday, September 9, 2008

What is it?

I think it was asteroid because:
* Scientist ever discovered debris from a UFO.
* There are such things as fire balls which are meteorite that do explode.
* An Asteroid is very large so it could have created the damage it did.

Wednesday, September 3, 2008

Scaling the Solar System

A) The earth would be about 3 feet away and Venus would be about 2 feet away and I believe this because its the same ratio from Ma's room to the nurses office as it is from the Sun to Pluto.

B) If I was 3.4 years old on Venus I would be about 2.1 years old on earth. There are more days in Earth years then in Venus years.

C)I would weigh about 181.4 pounds on Venus and you would be the heaviest on Jupiter weighing about 472.8 pounds. Your weight changes when you go to other planets because the gravity changes.

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

venus

Stars in the Constellations I saw:

Ursa Major: 6 stars

Ursa Minor: 7 stars

Pegasus: 7 stars

Approx. 667 stars

Thursday, August 21, 2008

something about me

This fall I am running cross country. This is my first year. It has been a good experience so far. The girls and the coach are great people to be around. I hope it ends up being a successful season.

Hi

http://www.mapowellastronomy2008.blogspot.com/ is my class addy.