Tuesday, October 21, 2008

constellation

1. Ursa Minor- 7

2. Ursa Major- 6

3. Capricorn- 11

Thursday, October 16, 2008

Black Holes

1. hole and radius
2. Gravity is so strong and it pulls everything into it
3. collapsed stars
4. the radius inside the hole
5.

Friday, October 3, 2008

How a CCD works

CCD = Charged-Coupled Device

Not all cameras have a CCD in it. Or it is called and image sensor. When we used the demonstration in class with the types of light and the flow of electrons

Monday, September 29, 2008

Telscope Types


SOHO

A.) the radiation ranges from microwaves to ultraviolet rays

B.) Above

C.) The light travels in 1 year

D.) It uses CCD

Sunspots

Well first sunspots are cool dark spots on the sun's surface that are associated with strong magnetic fields. Sunspots make look small but some can be as big as the earth. Sunspots affect the earths ionosphere. The ionosphere is the highest part of our atmosphere. An increase of matter flows out of the sun and into our atmosphere which sometimes affects our satellites and makes background static. When there is a lot of solar activity the earths atmosphere heats up and sometimes melt the satellites that are low to the earth. Some people thought that sunspots had something to do with rainfall and outbreak of disease but it was never ruled true. Sunspots have been shown to mess up a GPS system during a solar storm. A Solar storm is a large burst of charged particles, it is in the ionosphere. Sun spots are almost always seen in pairs. Solar Flares are most likely to occur in sunspots that are rotating like a hurricane. The Number of sunspots on a sun depends on a 11 year cycle. Sunspots are so much darker than the rest of the sun because the temperature of them is so much cool than as the sun. That is all the information i could find about sunspots.

Monday, September 22, 2008

What is up with Mercury

1.Mercury rotates 3 times in every 2 mercury years.

2. The waves lost energy when traveling and interacting with matter.


3. We received 5 graphs because when the waves hit Mercury's surface its rotation caused more than 1 return beam.

Lab 2: Moons of Jupiter

1. When the moons are closer to jupiter the data is much closer together

2. Shows the rotation of the moons around jupiter.

3. Closet moon to jupiter and is very fast.

4. Laws of planetary motion.