Astronomy Essays, Research Papers & Term Papers (253) essays
Astronomy essays:
2001: A Space Odyssey
... Stanley Kubricks 2001: A Space Odyssey explores the future of space from the directors point of view. This movie was made from extremely capable thinkers, because they would need amazing depth of thought to create such high standard futuristic effects (of the time ...
Jupiter and the Galilean Satellites
... Hubble Space Telescope reveal that Europa has a very tenuous atmosphere made of oxygen. It's most likely that it is generated by sunlight or charged particles hitting Europa ...
what are comets? this will tell you what and why we don't know so much about them.
... of a comet, and be able to watch comets form in the Oort Cloud. we have just figured out that we are goind to be hit by comets in 877 years and 11 months, this is a long time away but i think we will be ready by then. the comet ...
Comets
... comet within minutes of each other the comet was named the Hale-Bopp Comet. Nobody knows the exact orbital period of the comet but it is believed to be a little over 3000 years. It has passed through our solar system before (that is, it is not a new comet from the Oort Cloud ...
"The Largest Planet" This is a research essay about Jupiter. It includes unmanned missions to Jupiter and the general characteristics of the planet. It has 6 references.
... solar system and served double duty by flying by Jupiter to gather information to send back to Earth.. The more recent Galileo mission was launched from the Space Shuttle Atlantis in 1989 to travel to Jupiter and study the planet for a period of two years ...
This is on Reflecting telescopes, how they work, etc.
... of the discovery that these objects were in fact galaxies, outside of the Milky Way. One of the world's largest reflectors is the "200 inch" Hale telescope at California's Mount Palomar. You can view objects billions of light-years away ...
report on redgiants and typeII supernovae
... million years. When the helium runs out it continues burning in the outer shells. The star heats up causing carbon to turn to neon to sodium and then to magnesium. This lasts about 10 thousand years ...
Venus!
... solar system. There is only one major difference between these two planets, which is; on earth there are living things unlike Venus. Venus doesn't stay in the same place all the time, some scientists cannot spot Venus in the solar system . Because of ...
MERCURY history and statistics (facts)
... moons. One of Mercury's largest features is the 1300 km in diameter Caloris Basin, like the large basins on the moon it is thought that it was created by a large impact in the earlier history of the solar system ...
The Search for Black Holes
... of The Hubble Space Telescope. This telescope has just recently found what many astronomers believe to be a black hole, after being focused on a star orbiting an empty space. Several picture were sent back to Earth from the telescope showing many computer enhanced pictures of various radiation ...