Star Count

Great Worldwide Star Count

This event encourages people to learn more about astronomy.
This is a world wide event, having family and friends get together and gaze at the stars and find constellations and report what they see online.

 
People all over the world are going outside to count the stars now becuase there is light pollution from all the artificial light we use. Others do it for the fun and the gorgeous view. Majority of people do this count to record their local light pollution in their area.

A great constellation we could use during this count would be Cygnus pr the swan, since we live in the Northern Hemisphere. This constellation is very easy to find, so it would be helpful.

The Latitude and longitude of were I live is
Latitude: 42.44862
Longitude: -82.87831

is there really water on the moon?

water on the moon
Title: Nasa News NASA Spacecraft Impacts Lunar Crater in Search for Water Ice
Author: Jonas Dino and Ashley Edwards
Date: October 9, 2009

The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter space craft began its experiment to discover if there was frozen water on the moon. It crashed many space crafts into a moon crater and observed the debris plume. Sadly the scientist from Nasa says that it will take some time to find out if there is any form of water on the moon. LCROSS team says they will be the first to analyze if there is any form of water on the moon and they also say that it may take a couple of weeks to analyze.

My thoughts are that if there is any form of water on the moon maybe it isn't sanitary.
If there really was water on the moon, would there be enough?

My conclusion is that the discovery for water on the moon is unknown yet.

Mercury

 We care about Mercury because there maybe something on Mercury that we need or could use to help us on earth. Scientists hope to learn the operations they need to perform on the MESSENGER spacecraft. We also care about studying Mercury because it could have valuable resources or natural gases or even gold. They also hope to learn why Mercury shrunk. In recent studies scientists have agreed that Mercury has shrunken. Over many years, astronomers have figured out that under Mercury’s rocky surface has a thick layer or “mantle” which is hot liquid material,or molten rock.

I think the U.S shouldn't spend any money for traveling in space.  We should spend the little money we have more important things like finding a cure for cancer or buying food for starving people.  We shouldn't even study any other planets because it is a huge waste of money, when we could be using it for more important things.

Astronomy Hoaxes

Egg Hoax

This hoax is  very untrue.  An egg can not stand straight up on any normal day or on the equinox because the yolk and such inside of the egg.  The equinox stands for the first day of fall or spring there is nothing special to make an egg stand straight up.  Some people may be able to stand an egg straight up on it's end with a lot of patients, but it has nothing to do with the equinox. 

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The Great Moon Hoax

On August 25, 1835 the New York Sun announced the discovery of life on the moon. It explained that the discovery had been made by the famous British astronomer Sir John Herschel, who had invented a new telescope.  Over the course of the next week the Sun printed details about the moon creatures Herschel had supposedly spied with his telescope.  This is a hoax because they is no life forms living on the moon.  Sir John Herschel's false discovery excited many people in america and the  New York Sun sold many copies of their newspaper.

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Hubble Space Telescope.

This article tells all about the Hubble Telescope's new features.  There will be a new camera installed and two new instruments.  The telescope's new instruments also are more sensitive to light and can observe in ways that are significantly more efficient and require less observing time than previous generations of Hubble instruments.

I really like this article, it gives a lot of good detailed information about the new instruments and what the Hubble Telescope actually does.  Also you can learn a lot from this article, which is always important.  I think the Hubble Telescope is very important to space and should be left in space.  One question I have is: How do they get the Telescope up into space?

No author is stated for this article.  This article was posted September 9th, 2009.