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Apod 2.7

This astronomical nebula spans 100 light years across, while only being around 5000 light years distant from Earth. This nebula can actually be seen without a telescope! However you need to know where the constellation Sagittarius is, and you should be outside of the city if you want to experience the full affect which is without the lights from the city affecting your view from the cosmos.  The lagoon Nebula is also where millions of stars have formed, and are still forming. We have actually learned about the lagoon nebula in our Astronomy class, where we have to memorize the special M# according to the constellation. Having a greater view on what this M number is helps put things into perspective so i can view other astronomical wonders and have better knowledge on what it is.

Sources for astronomy bio

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Apod 2.5

Here we have a beautiful picturesque panoramic landscape picture taken by Rafael Defavari. This picture was taken in San Pedre, Chile (Valle de la Luna in the Chilean Atacama desert). If you look out into the horizon you can see the lights of San Pedre. This picture features actually, four galaxies. Toward the left there are satellite galaxies. ( known for their large clouds ). To the right of the milky way galaxy is the Andromeda galaxy. Now the last galaxy, excluding the milky way of course, is the andromeda galaxy which  lies 2.5 million light years away. 

Observation Blog 2.4

Throughtout this whole week (November 17th) I noticed this, along with all my other observation, in the early evening at around 6:03 am Mars was steadily moving eastward, along the ecliptic.

On the 18th I noticed the planet Saturn was in conjuction with the sun at approx 8:37pm, i searched it up later and noticed that in early December it would come rise in the early morning

On the 19th i noticed the moon's phase, which was a waning crescent, and realized that is was shifted north west of a very bright star. ( turned out to be Spica )

 To wrap up my observations, on November 22th i looked up at the night sky to see the beautiful full moon

The Tadpole Nebula APOD 1.4

About 12,000 light years away in the northern constellation of Augira, is the creation of a nebula. This picture in real perspective is over 100 light years across, giving us a view of the big picture. The cloud of glowing gas you can see in the center of this picture was created by stellar winds, which is particles radiated by planets. Which formed  these bright star clusters around 4 million years ago. Which created these tad-pole like wisps in nebula, hence the name, and are around 10 light years long. Crazy? I know right.?

Apod 2.3

This is Orion, a constellation, in gas,dust,and stars which is 1,500 light years away!!!  As you can see, there is a cluster of many celestial objects.That ranges too nebulae, stars, star clusters, which are all embedded into a large patch of gaseous wisps. Of course, the three bright stars on the left are Orion's belt, which is also called the flame nebula This flame nebula is composed of exited hydrogen gas,  with patches of dark brown dust. Not only is there a flame nebula but also the Orion nebula , M42 ,giving off a crimson color with a variety of gasses. Not on of my most prominant apod's, but i found a liking to his beautiful blue and red nebula. ( noting Veteran's day )

Apod 2.2

This phenomenal picture was taken in Norway after the clouds had cleared. Not only did the sky's clear but this spectacular aurora appeared. This was taken in early march, and our sun was producing these amazing aurora's for us. This happened to be in the time its maximum surface activity in the 11-year magnetic cycle.  Which allowed us to be able to capture pictures like the one i have here. It may appear photo-shopped, however i can guarantee you this is legit. This is a classic picturesque of an aurora, not only that we have a man at the apex of the mountain giving it a complement to this picture.

Apod Blog 2.1

Just recently learning about telescopes, I was pondering for a good amount of time and chose this picture. Perhaps some stars in the picture are perceived differently than they appear. Looking through a an infrared telescope it could be blatant to you that even though some stars are not as bright as others they can be allot more hotter. Being theoretical of course, this Galaxy's white spots ( which of course be separate galaxies) could be faded away with looking through an ultraviolet telescope allowing your eyes to perceive it as you could the ultraviolet waves. This was just a theoretical post, and wanted to alert you readers that things can me viewed entirely differently with the tools you are using.

Observation BLOG UNO ( SEPT. 15-21)

On Monday, the moon at 10:03 pm rose under the horn tip of Taurus,

On Tuesday  I noticed this really bright star, it turned out to be Arcturus, also to its northwest  was the big dipper. This was taken at roughyl 6:12pm

On Friday early in the morning at 7:28 Jupiter was shining in the upper left of the waning moon in the east.

Observation Blog #2 (Sept, 22-28)

On Tuesday at around 6:32pm  Arcturus was on its way due west, I also noticed that to the right of it was the Big Dipper!

On Wednesday Mars was 4 degrees of Antares  passing north of it, i noticed this observation at  6:21pm

On Thurday fall was coming and I noticed  Deneb  slowly but surely taking Vega's place as the brightest star at the zenith. This observation was taken at 7:06 pm.

For my final observation for this week we have Fomalhaut moving its way from the southeast of the horizon. Taken on Friday at 8:22pm

Observation Blog 3 (Sep 29th - Oct 5th)

On Monday at around  6:37 pm the waxing crescent moon was above Antares and Mars. Which was a cool observation, that i can compare to my later ones throughout the week.

On Thurday Above the moon (8:37 pm),  the two stars Denib and Vega of the summer triangle were  crossing the Zenith.

For my last and final entry for this week at 8:02 pm Fomalhaut was moving from the southeast of the horizon moving up. In comparison of the moon it was located in the lower left of the moon.

Apod Blog 1.8

Aurora's like this rarely reach below 60 kilometers and this one has reached this point. This beautiful affect is caused by energetic electrons and protons striking atoms and molecules in the Earth's atmosphere. This occurred last month in Kvaloya, Tromso, and Norway. The effect creating in the middle is called the auroral corona. This corona affect only occures if the aurora is forming directly overhead, and it creates this green light show that appears to be coming straight at you. I personally have never seen one in real life, but i would imagine it would be a phenomenal experience to do so.

Astronomy Observation Blog #4

On October 8th I managed to see a lunar eclipse at approximately 6:23AM where it peaked in its beauty. It was a total lunar eclipse, similar to the month matching the orange to red hue's it produced just like in fall compared to the leaves that are produced in that time period. It was the first time ever for me to take a glimpse at the total lunar eclipse, and I can't wait for this next one.

Stefan Jen

Mr. Percival

Astronomy

10/10/14

Pierre Gassandi Biography

Pierre Gassandi was born on June 22, 1592 in Champtercier, France. In his early life he was a bright kid, and would help change the views of the astronomy world. He studied at University of Digne Aix-en-Provence. At the age of 21 he was later appointed professor, and later that year received a doctorate in theology at Avignon. Being a professor, he delivered many speeches on the flawed teachings of Aristotle. The University disliked this, and after 5 years of teaching, a Jesuit, a member of Society of Jesus which was a highly esteemed religious order who were highly feared of, forced him to leave. This was because the Jesuit’s disliked Gassandi’s teaching of atoms, and was against the church. After that incident Gassandi traveled to Europe and stayed there for many years, trying to put down Aristotle. Gassandi started to read the works of Epicurus, and his philosophies on the motion of atoms in the world. However Epicurus, the man Pierre Gassandi looked up to, was on the top of the church’s hit list. Mainly for teaching and bringing up ideas that wasn’t the norm, such has the motion of atoms and how they exist even though they cannot be seen with the naked eye. Gassandi had managed to separate the god and the cosmos apart as they are completely different beliefs, unlike Epicurus who struggled to do so and resulted in him being punished greatly. He did this by modifying atomism so that it did not interfere with the church, by stating that god created these atoms. This was extremely smart, so that he could go on teaching atomism and not be harmed for it. Later in his life he went on to study with his Patron, Nicolaus-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, Sadly he died in 1637. With his assistance he had actually managed to discover the perihelion of Mercury. In 1645 Gassandi was appointed to be a professor of mathematics at the college Royal’ in Paris.  During his time there he managed to a work on the new astronomy. In his final Epicurean work, Syntagma philosophicum he argued between skepticism and dogmatism (which is laying down principles without any hard evidence to back it up.) The man did this by using induction Gassandi induced a lot to explain phenomenons. Epicurus’s theories were actually a very effective way of proving against Aristotle who thought the Earth was made of the four simple elements which were earth, fire, water, and air. Which during their time period sounds the most realistic, as proving that atoms existed was extremely hard to do so. Gassandi responded to Aristotle’s theory, stating that even though no one can see an atom, one can infer their existence with the human senses and observations. Such as noticing the invisible motion that makes branches sway back and forth, or as one can smell a certain material before actually seeing the object that is emitting the scent. Another example he theorized is that sweat suggests that there are pores in the skin for sweat to be able to exit your skin. For these actions to occur it only leads to that there is an atomic world too small to be seen. His crafting of these theories, which was expanded upon by Epicurus, lead up to be called atomism. This was in theory that atoms were moving at different speeds and colliding to create events that occur in our everyday world. Gassandi died on October 24, 1655. Later after his death an edition of all of complete works were published. Even though no one had believed him at his time, just bringing up the idea of atomism lead to other scholars to create laws that would eventually be accepted by society. This one scholar that most attributed from Gassandi’s works was the ever so famous Sir Isaac Newton.  

Works Cited:

• "Pierre Gassandi." Pierre Gassandi's Major highlights. N.p., n.d. Web. 10 Oct. 2014. <http://go.galegroup.com/ps/retrieve.do?sgHitCountType=None&sort=RELEVANCE&inPS=true&prodId=GVRL&userGroupName=fl_sarhs&tabID=T003&searchId=R1&resultListType=RESULT_LIST&contentSegment=&searchType=BasicSearchForm¤tPosition=2&contentSet=GALE%7CCX3408501382&&docId=GALE|CX3408501382&docType=GALE>.
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• Popkin, Richard. "Pierre Gassendi (French mathematician, philosopher, and scientist)." Encyclopedia Britannica Online. Encyclopedia Britannica, n.d. Web. 10 Oct. 2014. <http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/226651/Pierre-Gassendi>.

Apod 1.7

Eclipse at Moonset

This was taken near the Chilean coast on October 8th a rare picture to capture and just looks phenomenal. Here a lunar eclipse is occurring whilst the sun is setting. creating a seeming-less picture of a partial lunar eclipse and the sun being set upon. The moon is actually being completely shadowed by Earth, creating a lunar eclipse. This causes the light waves to react with Earth's atmosphere and create a crimson-ish  color effect. Before ever seeing this photo i thought this was impossible, a combination of a lunar-eclipse and the sun setting?! However, i now understand the fundamentals in which that makes this rare event occur. While the sun is setting, a lunar eclipse is occurring as well being overshadowed by earth creating this beautiful picture.

APOD 1.6 OR NAWH

This right here is the beautiful Butterfly Nebula, that was taken by the Hubble telescope. This nebula has a WINGSPAN ( get it, butterfly, hah...) of over 3 light years. The central star of this nebula had become extremely hot, with around a surface temperature of 250,000 degrees C. However this isn't the exact colors of the nebula itself, it was reprocessed to show its true colors and beauty. You can see the ionized gas exquisitley here, as the dust torus surrounding the central star. This nebula lies around 4000 light years away in the constellation of scorpius. When first reading about the "Butterfly Nebula" i didn't expect this, a mix of stars and gasses that create vibrant colors to the eye in the form of a butterfly!?!  It is just crazy how these images form. No way in my lifetime, would i expect to see these creations formed by matter in space.

Apod 1.2, M6: The Butterfly Cluster

There is a reason M6 is called the butterfly cluster, this is because of the outline of the open cluster resembles a butterfly. This nebula spans about 20 light years across and  2000 light years distant from us (Earth.) In this cluster there is actually a constellation that we learned in our Astronomy class, it is Scorpius. However you might need a pair of binoculars to see the constellation, as it does get mixed with the hundreds of other stars here. This nebula primarily consists of bright blue stars, although as you can see the brightest is the light-orange colored star. Looking and using today's technology we figured out the age of M6, which is estimated to be about 100 million years old. Using this knowledge it can help us figure out the age of our universe, which could be trillions and trillions years old for all we know.

APOD 1.5

The Lagoon Nebula in Stars Dust and Gas

This astronomical nebula spans 100 light years across, while only being around 5000 light years distant from Earth. This nebula can actually be seen without a telescope! However you need to know where the constellation Sagittarius is, and you should be outside of the city if you want to experience the full affect which is without the lights from the city affecting your view from the cosmos.  The lagoon Nebula is also where millions of stars have formed, and are still forming. We have actually learned about the lagoon nebula in our Astronomy class, where we have to memorize the special M# according to the constellation. Having a greater view on what this M number is helps put things into perspective so i can view other astronomical wonders and have better knowledge on what it is.

- Stefan Jen

Friday, September 26, 2014

Galse sources Pierre Gassandi

Kadane, Matt. "Pierre Gassendi." Science and Its Times. Ed. Neil Schlager and Josh Lauer. Vol. 3: 1450 to 1699. Detroit: Gale, 2001. 368-370. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 26 Sept. 2014.

"Gassendi (Gassend), Pierre." Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography. Vol. 5. Detroit: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2008. 284-290. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 26 Sept. 2014.

Friday, September 19, 2014

IC 4603: Reflection Nebula in Ophiuchius

This picture is just beautiful to look at, almost resembling low-opacity clouds or almost like cigarrete smoke. However, this is not the case this is a picture the dust and mass amounts of carbon in them that are released when a star dies. The location of this picture is in the middle of the nebula IC 4603. The shining bright blue star you can see is part of the constellation Opiuchius and is named Antares. The blue light is actually very important in marking out the dust so you are able to see the other stars, making the picture just more fantatastic to look at.

 

Potentially Habitable Moons

     There are four moons in are solar system that may seem inhabitable. Of course you must have essential criteria for human life, which includes: Oxygen,sustainable temperature,water, etc. Recently in the Galileo mission to Jupiter had discovered that Europa's containing liquid water. The Cassini probe had even discovered water on Enceladus, which actually proves to the point of having a cool enough temperature for us to live on. Even on the planet moon titan it has a frozen surface, but below it just like any other frozen large body of water it has liquid underneath it. Looking at the picture has a whole we have discovered more inhabitable moons than planets, allowing for a more reliable source of life.

Living on another planet has always questioned astrobiologists as it might be a possible option for the future. This could solve the up and coming problem of overpopulation, where in biology there are exponential curves and they have to stop at one point. Which could be in our life time where our population HAS to drop in order to main stability. We are looking for multiple options but this seems to be the best to solve overpopulation, if we don't find a solution we could be looking a huge drop in our population.

REMNANTS OF SUPA NOVA PUPPY A!!! - Stefan

 Supernova Remnant Puppis A. 

This star's explosion was the biggest if not the biggest star explosion recorded by mankind. A massive star exploded throughout the galaxy around 7,000 light years away. This created a beautiful remnant of the star's explosion which is around 180 light years wide. The bright colors in Supernova remnant puppis A was caused by shocked gas and dust mingles. You wouldn't be able to see this unless you were present 3700 years ago with our scientific tools to allow us to view the galaxy. But, we have managed to get an x ray view of that portion of the exploded star in the galaxy.The x ray's vision allows us to view the supernova explosion's remnants which is just unreal, something you would think would have been photo shopped. However, this is the raw image of the remnants however, topeople's disbelief. The supernova's explosion had actually released more raw elements and compounds that are essential in the formation of stars and planets. Looking at the explosion at a whole, and analyzing the the substances released could further benefit our own planet into discovering our own origins.