Category Archives: Stars

Cumulating Final Post

Posted on December 6, 2024 by jasonljohnson465

After 7 choruses, back to the head out. Image from NASA Writing this blog has been an interesting experience, and I feel like I learned a lot. The most surprising things I learned about was retrograde motion and how it worked. Before this course I had the term tossed around, but I didn’t know what […] Continue reading →

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Astronomy Reflection

Posted on December 5, 2024 by Alekzander Waller

Picture Source What have you learned from this course that surprised you the most?Why did it surprise you? The part of this course that surprised me the most was everything relating to spectroscopy. I was very intrigued that astronomers could figure out all of this information about a planet just from what is emitted (or […] Continue reading →

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Extrasolar Planets and How to Find Them

Posted on November 18, 2024 by Justinc

Extrasolar planets are planets that are found outside the Solar System. Stars are relatively easier to find than extrasolar planets as they are generally bigger and luminous (give off light). But planets, neither generate much light nor are they as big as stars so how do scientists find them? Well there are four main ways […] Continue reading →

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Binary Star Systems.

Posted on November 15, 2024 by Elias Ibrahim

A binary star system A binary star system is a pair of stars which orbit a common center of mass. In fact, they are quite common in the universe. Types of Binary Star Systems Visual Binaries: Such a binary system can be resolved as two separate stars using a telescope. Spectroscopic binaries: here, the components would be close enough to one another that it would not be possible to visually distinguish the two. […] Continue reading →

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A Moving Sky

Posted on September 4, 2024 by Ian Vasquez

Stars in Yellowstone National Park Have you ever heard of horoscopes, zodiac signs, or noticed you can see different constellations in the sky during different times of the year? This is all due to the shifting of our perspective on Earth throughout the year. No, the stars are not rotating around us out there. They […] Continue reading →

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Blog 8: Astronomy in the Future

Posted on April 24, 2024 by Charles Knoll

After taking this course, I am extremely excited to stay updated and learn more about astronomy and any news that comes out in the future. Now that I understand a lot more about how our solar system works, I am excited to read more and more about new findings in the world of astronomy. I […] Continue reading →

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A New Era of Stargazing

Posted on April 24, 2024 by liamoneill95

This beach pictured on Nantucket Island is my favorite place on Earth, and the origin of my interest in astronomy and curiosity of what lies beyond what we know. This beach is on the tip of the island, making light pollution a limited issue and allowing for incredible stargazing when the sun sets beyond the […] Continue reading →

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Our Closest Stellar Neighbor

Posted on April 7, 2024 by sabrinaalperin

If I am going to be honest, my decision to dedicate this blog post to the Alpha Centauri system comes from a TV show that I watched a few years ago. Netflix’s remake of Lost in Space follows a family as they travel across the universe to Alpha Centauri to start a colony there. Captured […] Continue reading →

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Discovering Extrasolar Planets

Posted on April 7, 2024 by sabrinaalperin

Have you ever wondered if us humans are alone in the vast expanse of the universe? Do worlds similar to those in our solar system exist? Scientists are currently looking for answers to these questions by studying extrasolar planets, or planets that orbit around other stars. Three main methods allow scientists to analyze these questions […] Continue reading →

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Crazy Stars

Posted on March 6, 2024 by Jonas Kobza

Stars like our Sun are considered “ordinary” and quite common. They produce energy through hydrogen fusion. A weirder type of star is a white dwarf. These are stars that at one point produced energy through hydrogen fusion, but have run out of hydrogen, and do not have the mass to carry out fusion energy reactions […] Continue reading →

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