The Night Sky, showing the Milky Way, at La Silla Observatory in Chile. Source: Wikimedia Commons. The constellations visible from the Western Hemisphere differ from those visible from the Southern Hemisphere. In English, we typically use names derived from Greek and Roman mythology for the constellations, referring to constellations such as Orion and Pleiades […]
Read more "Name That Constellation"When people talk about the Cosmic Calendar – the entire history of the universe, from the Big Bang up until this very moment, plotted onto a Gregorian calendar – we often focus on the infinitesimal space that human history has taken up. According to the Cosmic Calendar in our textbook, modern humans as a species […]
Read more "One of Last Week’s Mass Extinctions"Welcome to my blog for ASTR 2110: The Solar System. My name is Chloe and I’m a junior at Vanderbilt University. I’m currently majoring in English with a focus in creative writing. photo by me This photograph is not particularly related to astronomy or the solar system in any way (besides being located in […]
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The Solar System 