Essays Tagged: "Milky Way"

The Vist

e that was rarely appreciatedby most.Except Jane. She loved the clear sky, the faint presence ofthe Milky Way as it wrapped itself across the near-endlessplane that was the sky She stood out on the ba ...

(4 pages) 51 0 4.1 Oct/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Alternative

Do UFO's really exist??? This essay is an arguement over whether UFO's exist or not. I sided on the, "yes, they do exist" side. I hope this is helpful to you!

ge universe.One Rand Corporation study, for example, produced a figure of 600million planets in the Milky Way galaxy capable of supporting intelligentlife. More conservative analyses have produced a f ...

(5 pages) 214 2 3.1 Sep/2002

Subjects: Science Essays > Space

America's True Dream

d Kings' finding power through dominance of individual freedom. They controlled lands, travel, waterways, and food supplies, hitting at the most basic needs of human survival. Then they broke apart th ...

(3 pages) 57 0 4.5 Nov/2002

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

English translation to the 1st and 2nd song on the mandrin singer Jay Chow's 'Jay' CD.

ave a helicopterWant to fly with you to the universeWant to be together with youWe'll melt into the Milky WayEveryday, everyday, everyday, I think of youThis sort of sweetness makes me start to believ ...

(1 pages) 37 1 1.0 Apr/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies

All about the universe.

in the universe. All the stars visible to the unaided eye from Earth belong to Earth's galaxy, the Milky Way. The Sun, with its associated planets, is just one star in this galaxy.There are four main ... is Barnard's Galaxy, an irregular Local Group galaxy.iii.Explain what the Megallenic clouds and the Milky Way are.The Milky Way is a gravitationally bound collection of roughly a hundred billion stars ...

(7 pages) 163 0 3.8 Jul/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Astronomy

Proving the Exstance and current theorums of the "black hole"

a black hole) has at least three solar masses. That is, the mass of three solar systems such as our milky way. Its gravitational pull is so great that even light cant escape. It just sits here collect ... rest black hole to us? There is strong evidence that there is a black hole in the center of our own Milky Way galaxy! Yes, that close, but don't worry because the time it takes for it to engulf our ga ...

(5 pages) 108 3 4.0 Dec/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science

The Search For Dark Matter in the Universe.

nt through these mediums is even more mysterious. When Astronomers observe spiral galaxies like our Milky Way, they use Doppler shifts to determine the rotation speeds of stars and gas at various dist ... he University of California, Berkeley, and his team identified 38 cool white dwarfs orbiting in the Milky Way halo. This was one of the first sightings of a significant number of MACHOs. What made thi ...

(6 pages) 108 0 5.0 Dec/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Astronomy

The Andromeda Galaxy.

Andromeda GalaxyThe Andromeda galaxy is the closest full size galaxy to the Milky Way because of this it is known as our nearest galactic neighbor. The Andromeda Galaxy is also ... Andromeda is not only known as our closest neighbor but scientists also refer to Andromeda and the Milky Way as sister galaxies. Andromeda closely resembles the Milky Way in shape (spiral), structure ... stribution of chemical elements. But that is where their similarities end, for Andromeda dwarfs the Milky Way and contains around twice as many stars.This galaxy is set among the stars of the constell ...

(2 pages) 51 1 4.7 Jan/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Astronomy

A creative writing piece on a day of work experience at a nursery; through the eyes of an alien. (Title - Santa Claus is coming to town)

g stars and just escaped death from the Opilostic black hole that awaited me before entrance to the Milky Way. To my surprise there were no signs of this white fluid substance called milk, in fact the ...

(16 pages) 53 0 4.0 Jan/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

The big bang- how the universe began

diation. The cosmic dust particles block the view of the visible universe such as the center of the Milky Way but these cosmic dust particles are transparent in the Infrared Radiation wavelengths. It ... in their spectra they have enormous red shifts that seem to imply that they are recording from the Milky Way with speeds as great as 95% of the speed of light.Question 4Not everyone agrees with the i ...

(4 pages) 76 0 3.0 Oct/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Astronomy

- I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud - By, William Wadsworth - How author uses figurative language...

ures two main scenes: (1) nature with trees, daffodils, and hills, and (2) space with stars and the Milky Way. William Wordsworth uses figurative language such as personification through out the whole ... o imagination. In this poem, the narrator first starts off in earth's nature, then zooms out to the Milky Way in the universe. All of this imagination occurs on the couch of the narrator's house. To a ...

(2 pages) 49 2 3.0 Dec/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry

What will happen in the next 50 years if we don't do any thing about the environment?

f and like this the human race will end and the planet will disappear from our solar system and the milky way galaxy.

(1 pages) 31 2 1.5 Feb/2005

Subjects: Humanities Essays

"The Great War of Our Time".

In the Empirium Galaxy, three hundred parsecs away from the Milky Way Galaxy, laid 50,000 planets. The Empirium Galaxy was made out to three sections, the Boldo ... remembered reading a book which said back in the First Age that some man on the planet Earth in the Milky Way Galaxy, Tacitus, some Roman Historian said that the Romans had 10,000 well organized men, ...

(14 pages) 33 0 3.0 Aug/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Poems & Short Stories

Black Holes.

lack holes are known to exist in the center of galaxies, including the galaxy in which we live, the Milky Way galaxy. Some supre massive black holes have a mass greater than or equal to the mass of ou ...

(4 pages) 39 1 2.3 Dec/2005

Subjects: Science Essays > Astronomy

The Search for Intelligent Life Beyond Earth

stence of extraterrestrial life has always been a very real possibility. After all, our galaxy, the Milky Way, is over 100,000 light years across and is only one of many galaxies that make up the enti ...

(3 pages) 53 0 4.3 Apr/2006

Subjects: Science Essays > Astronomy

Gravity

he strongest pull of all. The Sun is the center of our solar system. Our solar system is called The Milky Way. The Sun is a ball of hydrogen and helium gases along with other gases and metals t ...

(1 pages) 1211 0 0.0 Nov/2001

Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science

Sagan

a bed in Seattle which is nestled in North America on the spinning Earth led by the Sun around the Milky Way, a speck of cosmic dust floating in the Universe. On this bed Carl Sagan died of an obscur ...

(7 pages) 9 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy

Death Penalty

The solar System Abstract: Our solar system is in the galaxy named Milky Way. It is mainly composed of the sun and the nine planets. The sun is a huge mass and the big ...

(13 pages) 22 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Science Essays > Astronomy

Is there life of planets circling other stars?

Maybe civilization itself is an odd. And we exist simply because of an accident at the edge of the milky way.Thinking of that is too frustrated. And no scientist would be willing to accept it as true ...

(1 pages) 6 0 3.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science

Doomsday 2012 - End of Days

ence. On December 21, 2012, the Earth will be in exact alignment with the Sun and the center of the Milky Way Galaxy also known as the Galactic Equator. This is a colossal event that takes place only ... colossal event that takes place only once ever 25,800 years. (www.viewzone.com) We are part of the Milky Way Galaxy, which is in essence, "a huge disc shaped collection of stars and planets".( www.vi ...

(8 pages) 84 1 3.3 Apr/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues