Astronomy Essays, Research Papers & Term Papers (253) essays
Astronomy essays:
The Search For Dark Matter in the Universe.
... Earth and in orbiting satellites far up above our atmosphere. Scientists are considering a number of possibilities for this Dark Matter. The most popular candidates for dark matter are called MACHOS (Massive Compact Halo Objects), and WIMPS (Weakly Interacting Massive Particles). (Mystery) Examples ...
The Hubble Space Telescope: A Window to Space. A six page scientific essay entireley about the Hubble Space Telescope. Includes citations from a variety of sources and Bibliography.
... way exchange of data in many places. First, the staff at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland accepts the proposal, and then engineers encode information for the telescope to observe. The engineers then send the information to Goddard Space Flight Center ...
Space Exploration
... of Earth with a celestial body, a comet or asteroid. Depending on the size of such a body the consequences may be different. Astronomical observations and current space research have confirmed that such cosmic collisions are not rare exceptions within the geological time scale. For example ...
Theories on the Origin of the Moon
... Earth with a velocity (at large distances) of not more than about 5 kilometers. This restricts the orbit of the impactor to lie near that of the Earth. It has also been found that collisions involving larger impactors with more than the Earth ...
Copernicus, Brahe, Kepler, and Galileo - a new theory of the universe.
... Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) was an Italian mathematician and astronomer. He did experiments about motion that seemed to disprove the whole Aristotelian system that said a thing needed to be constantly acted upon in order to have motion. He also made improvements in the design of telescopes ...
Sputnik
... earth orbit! Much of the impact was due to the secrecy; although some members of the intelligence community knew of the advanced status of a Soviet satellite program, the general public was caught completely off-guard. To most Americans, the thought that the Soviets could launch something in space ...
The Sun
... NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center. But as communications rely increasingly on satellites, there are more targets in the sky and more significant consequences to any disruptions. And there may be more to sunspots than disrupted communications. An active sun, known to heat the Earth ...
Formation of Black Holes
... of harnessing the immense gravitational energy of black holes for future space research. Stephen Hawking and Roger Penrose proved that black holes are a generic feature in Einstein's theory of gravity, and cannot be avoided in some collapsing objects. Interest was renewed in the astronomical ...
Neil Armstrong's Moon Landing in 1969
... of space flight, Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin, Neil Armstrong, and Michael Collins landed softly on the moon’s Sea of Tranquility (“US Centennial of Space Flight Commission”). The Eagle landed at 4:17 Eastern Daylight Time with less than 30 seconds of fuel left (“NASA ...
The Amazing Universe
... galaxy, supernova, and blackholes in the universe. First, the light's speed is very fast that is 294,400km/sec and there is a 'light-year'. The light travels in one year and the distance is 9.6 trillion kilometers. Second, in universe ...