Planet Essays

Despite the he contributed to the modern world as an advanced mathematician, eminent astronomer, and an excellent map creator which people recognized as an exceptional skill in his time due to his level of thinking. Ptolemy, was also known as Claudius Ptolemaeus in Latin, was born in Egyptian genius in …

Discovery images of the dwarf planet Eris. The three images were taken 1 1/2 hours apart on the night of October 21st, 2003. Eris can be seen very slowly moving across the sky over the course of 3 hours. Eris was discovered in July, 2005 by Mike Brown of CalTech …

1. Prologue In the novella The Little Prince, Saint- Expery explored the thought of taking things for granted. He first sent the prince away from his own planet because the flower was using him for her advantage and not being nice about it. The prince feeling not at all happy …

Neptune has 13 moons, Triton, Nereid, Naiad, Thalassa, Despina, Larissa, Proteus, and Galatea, plus five smaller, unnamed moons. Triton and Proteus orbit close to Neptune; Nereid is in a distant orbit. Triton is the only moon in our Solar System with a retrograde orbit (orbiting in the opposite direction than …

Edwin Hubble was one of the first people to actually realise what a galaxy is, the measurement of the “Hubble Tuning Fork” Classification scheme shows how round or rightly wound their “arms” are. E0 means that an elliptical galaxy is extremely round, whilst E7 is flat. However not all galaxies …

I wake up because of the blinding light outside .The sun truly comes out like thunder I say to myself ,each sunrise lasts only a few seconds ,but in that time you see at least eight different bands of color come and go ,from a brilliant red to the brightest …

I was in fact very confused by the way Atwood describes the condition of the earth to the outsider (or alien). Because when you start to explain something to someone, you assume that both of you must first know and agree with something together. This feeling started from Atwoods description …

Today, we have a thorough understanding of the structure of our universe. We know that the earth is round, is the third planet from the sun, and the sun is the center of our universe. We also know that the space around our universe simply goes on forever – it …

Venus is known as the jewel of the sky. It was thought to be two different planets by ancient astronomers and thus referred to as the morning star and the evening star. Early astronomers also referred to Venus as Earth’s sister planet. Both are considered young planets due to the …

Science I will use textbooks and modules. Textbooks are very systematic materials because the subject matter is properly arranged. In textbooks there is information in subjects that the students needed. Also in textbooks the students can read on their own and they can use it to answer their assignments and …