Week of January 28th

The Hunter's Stars!  Pictured above is the famous Constellation Orion.  Your mission this week is to find this constellation in the night sky - look for the 3 stars in a row.  In the upper left is Betelgeuse - a red super giant.  Betelgeuse is a very bright star, but it is cooler than our Sun.  How is this possible?  In the bottom right is Rigel - a blue giant star - one of the hottest and brightest stars in the sky.  Right beneath the 3 belt stars is the Orion Nebula - one of the most active star-making nebula's we have found.

Our Week

Monday:  1.  Continue working on Star Activities - the plan is to be done with everything by the end of class on Tuesday

Homework:  1.  Work on Star Activities if behind  2.  Find Constellation Orion - Draw, color and label the names of the most prominent stars - use my picture above for help.   Record what time and in what direction in the sky you saw it.  Due Friday. 

3.  Astronomy Eval. on Quia - link is below - due Wednesday

 

Astronomy Eval. 1: Stars and Galaxies 

Tuesday:  1.  Finish Star Act. - I will be collected the Spectroscope Lab and What Types of Stars are in our Galaxy.  I will be checking the Gizmo and What's the Story.  

Element Spectra for Spectroscope Lab

Wednesday-Friday:  1.  "Tools of Modern Astronomy" 2.  Tools' Research Project - due Tuesday, February 5th

List of Famous Telescopes

List of Large Reflecting Telescopes

Radio Telescope Around the World

10 Amazing Telescopes

 Question of the Week

The Hubble Space Telescope at work over 200 miles above the Earth.  What would be the main reason to place a telescope in space?

No, the sky is not falling!  Pictured above are 3 huge reflecting telescopes in Chile;in the background is the Milky Way.  Click on the picture and watch what happens.  Why do you think the Milky Way seems to  moving?