Gabriella De Feo Science Methods 2

1. What did you do in lab today?  Big introduction question: Right now, today I looked up in the sky, pondering life and all it's mysteries. I was startled to see that we were currently in a "full moon" phase. Why was I so startled?  Today in lab, we began speaking about the first four planets in our solar system. To understand the size and the distance between our planets, my group and I conducted a model to scale made our of play-doh. We used the NASA website to find how big each planet was going to be and how far apart they are from one another. We used a meter stick and ultimately ended up taking up the entire foyer of the Lindquist center, which was insanely shocking to me.  3. What did you learn in Thursday's lecture?  In Thursday's lecture discussion, we talked further about the planets that make up our solar system. We also talked about how the moon orbits around Earth. We learned that it takes around 28 days to do this. We also were able to see this in a ...

1. What did you do in lab today?  Today in lab, we listened to many presentations given by our classmates regarding many different important space science topics:  Life Cycles of Stars: -Misconceptions stars are made of fire stars are white stars never die  -Current Understanding the larger the mass, the shorter the life stars are formed by molecular clouds  sun is a "main sequence star"  average star is between 1 and 10 billion years old  Galaxies:  -Misconceptions milky way is the center of the universe  galaxies are randomly distributed -Current Understanding  consist of stars, planets, and clouds of dust all bound together by gravity  come in a variety of shapes: spirals, ellipticals  most are between 10 billion and 13.6 billion years old  Black Holes:  -Misconceptions black holes will eventually suck in the entire universe they are black  they are all the same size  you can see them -Current Understanding Th...