Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Space and whats really out there.

( I started writing at 9:10 and finished and 9:52)


So I decided to pick the topic space to do some research on. As Im reading through articles I have found they are constantly mentioning "theories" to why things are and how the things started throughout time in space. It amazes me that everything involving science can be found out and scientists can dig, dig, and dig to get so much informantion on all these other things but noone can figure out space. I have always been interested in space and learning about it. The whole thinking of it just blows my mind away. Spa ce I think will always be unknown to me and to other people. Us as humans cant get the whole concept of it. Theories we have as people are always with other people like what we think is going out with them, or what really happened? You know, gossip or what events really happened in the past that we do research for but space is a whole nother topic that we cant just quite reach. One thing that caught my eye is there are stars out there that fail and they end up dying. I knew that starts dont live forever but it says that they live from 1 million to 3 million years. They say thats young! They are about 520 years away and in the range in mass from 40 to 70 times the heft of Jupiter. Thats huge! Earth is almost invisible to Jupiter and Earth is pretty damn big to us people. They also say that the Sun us 4.6 billion years old. Im still considering if thats fact or if scientists just say that to make it some like they have some facts about our solar system. How would they be able to figure how old the sun is but not be able to figure out how the planets were made? I mean for how long now has the world been talking about the "big bang theory"? I just dont believe that. There is no way that all of a sudden everything just banged together and the plants were formed..It would of had to take some kind of higher power to do this. Everything in life considering our earth and other planets, space, etc just doesnt happened there has to be a story behind it. The starts that soon end up failing out which is 1 to 3 million years of living are called brown dwarf. Scientists dont know how life can form on them if all the plants around them are dark and cold. Im still trying to get the answer if planets can soon end up giving up. Stars are actually way different the planets. I would think planets would be around forever well until the world ends that is..or would the planets still be around? I mean we just never know. I think the thing that amazes me about space is were always left with wondering and whats really going on? I mean space is so huge and everything is so far away we just cant realize how everything is so BIG! I mean, the largest star out there is ofcourse called a Red Giant. The sun in the picture shows that being invisible to it. And our sun is pretty damn big. People say that the Sun is the biggest star but its really not. The largest planet in our solar system is Jupiter. The red spot on that planet is bigger then the Earth. Jupiters overall size is 318 times greater then the earth. Jupiter is 2.5 times greater then all of the planets combined. It takes this planet 4,333 days to orbit the Sun one full time. Jupiter has 63 discovered moons on record. The larget planet out there that was discovered shouldnt even be that big according to its mass. The planet is about 1.7 times as big as Jupiter making that almost twice the side. It has cloudy planets all around it. Its existence cant even be explained by current models. Tres-4 is the largest planet out there that scientists can find, there could be more larger plants but we have no way of measuring theur sizes because they dont transit. In the reading I read that our Sun will become a Red Giant one day but for another billion years. I just dont get how they knows this but cant figure out the questions that people are always wondering..? They say that once Earth becomes a Red Giant is will make Earth disappear. Tres-4 seems to be a mistery to why its so large. All the research they have done on it doesnt make sense to it size.

www.space.com/scienceastronomy

1 comment:

Becky said...

I love how your mind works! I love that you want to learn and that your curiosity is never sated. This is such a great skill to have! I know there are moments when the vastness of space can be overwhelming, but for me, there's joy too in not knowing it all and realizing I can't. Way to select something that allows you to ponder big questions but also presents big ideas. Wonderful!