Archive for the ‘Astronomy’ Category
May 31st, 2010 | 
Author: Historic Importance of Orion/Taurus Sky Region to the Ancients
From the beginning of civilisation man has been enamoured with a region of the sky encompassing Orion and Taurus. According to German researcher Dr Michael Rappenglueck, of the University of Munich a Magdalenian picture depicts the Pleiades, Hyades and Taurus. It appears to also represent the three stars of Orion’s belt. Recent evidence shows many cave paintings were added to in Magdalenian times but started back in 32000 BC.
It is getting to the point where planets are being found everywhere. Fifty here, fifty there, well maybe I am exaggerating a small, but there are a lot of planets out there. Now that we know for sure that planets exist outside our own solar system, maybe we should stop counting the ones that we find. Why do I say this? Our galaxy is only one of billions, or even more. It contains over 100,000,000,000 stars. If only one star in three has planets around it and lets say the average amount of planets is 4, we are looking at a heck of a lot of planets my friends. That is roughly 133,333,333,333 planets in only our own galaxy. If only one planet of these in 1,000 has life, we are looking at 13,333,333 planets containing life. If only 1 in 1,000 of these has intelligent life, we are look at 13,333 planets in our galaxy that contain intelligent life. Now you know why we are searching for signals from planets with intelligent life, it is because the numbers favor the chances of it being there. Our world can’t be that special that we are the only intelligent beings in the galaxy. It would be very closed minded of us to believe this. Even if we take the bible as a literal interpretation of God’s word, I don’t reckon there is anything in there that prohibits life in other places besides Earth. Maybe I will receive an argument on this, but this is what I believe.
A excellent way to teach your kids their first lesson about the eight or nine planets of the solar system is by combining factual lessons with visible sightings of the planets.
Moon as the Earliest Calendar give readers of the Holy Bible information recorded in ancient times. Lunar/solar calendars were common throughout the ancient world. Three calendar systems that help our study of Bible times are the Jewish, Mesoamerican and the Egyptian calendars. Changes in the appearance of the moon at night provide the seven-day week. Time steps in the lunar/solar calendar accumulate for longer time cycles.
The Moon has a prominent place in myth and folklore throughout human history.
Formation
According to a theory, the Moon was made when a rock the size of Mars slammed into Earth, small ly after the solar system started forming about 4.5 billion years ago.
In the previous article, we tackled the planets nearest the sun, and which could easily be seen in the night sky.
From Mercury to the asteroid belt, our nearest neighbors appear nearly like stars, and can make star staring a fascinating activity for both young and ancient alike. Beyond the asteroid belt are cold, massive planets, with their own gases and storms, and their own tales to tell. If you are interested in viewing these planets in the night sky, you may need more powerful tools for your home astronomy session, which will include the following.
Venus is the second world from the Sun and is the sixth prevalent. It is the brightest purpose in the night sky excluding for the Moon. Venus orbits the Sun once every 224.7 Earth time and gets as close to the Sun as 107.476 million kilometers and as far away from the Sun as 108.942 million kilometers. This makes the orbit of Venus less elliptical and more circular than any other planets. The temperature on the escalate of Venus can attain as high as 740 degrees Kelvin. This is due to a phenomenon called the greenhouse look whereby carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of Venus traps the Suns heat inside. This makes Venus the newest planet in the Solar System. Venus is even hotter than Mercury although being past away from the Sun.
Venus is 12,100 kilometers in diameter and has a bunch of 4.869e+24 kilograms. This makes Venus like to the Earth and has often been called Earths sister planet. Nevertheless the similarities end there. One foremost difference between the Earth and Venus is that Venus rotates on its axis from east to west, which means if you lived on Venus you would see the Sun rise in the west and set in the east. The atmosphere on Venus is commonly carbon dioxide choked with sulfuric acid and has a make at the exterior more than 92 period the burden at sea steamroll on Earth. Unlike the Earth, Venus does not have a mesmeric topic generated by its iron interior. This may be the outcome of how slowly Venus rotates on its axis. The only alluring area Venus has is very weak and is twisted by the interaction of the solar encircle and the ionosphere of Venus.
Are we alone in the universe or is there life on other planets? And perhaps even as close our next door neighbor, the planet Mars?
Mars itself is – because it is further away from our heat source the Sun – a cold desert planet. So far without any signs of life nor liquid water on the surface.
