Can anyone please give me any ideas for what to write about in a project based on "Astronomy"?

Question

Please answer as soon as possible because I need to collect relevant info as fast as I can to finish my project soon.

Answer 1

Birth and death of stars is an interesting subject, IMO.

Here are some starting points:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hertzsprung-Russell_diagram
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernova
http://aspire.cosmic-ray.org/labs/star_life/starlife_main.html
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/sun/Solar_interior/Nuclear_Reactions/Fusion/Fusion_in_stars/star_life.html

Answer 2

Astronomy can be a very fascinating subject. why dont you try some of these?? Hope thay really helped you^.^


Astronomy is science that will challenge your imagination. The distances are mind-boggling. The numbers are immense. How many stars in a galaxy? How many galaxies in the known universe? How many strange worlds are out there on other planets, orbiting other stars and what are they like? Is there life on planets besides earth? Here you can find projects for measuring the distance to a star or learn how to collect your own data from an orbiting observatory, plus lots more.

What Makes the Rings of Saturn? Difficulty = 1
Saturn is a unique planet because of the many beautiful rings surrounding it. How are all of those rings made? Why is each ring unique?

Craters and Meteors Difficulty = 1
Have you ever heard that the moon is made of cheese? Even though the many craters on the surface of the moon resemble holes in Swiss cheese, we know that this common myth is not true. Find out how craters form by doing this simple experiment.

A Puzzling Parallax Difficulty = 2
Did you know that ancient astronomers could measure the distance to other stars? They could also distinguish between stars and planets. How could they do that without modern technology of telescopes? See if you can discover the link between distance and perspective used to measure stars.

Measuring the Moon Difficulty = 3
Sometimes a full moon can be so bright, you can walk around in the dark without a flashlight. How much brighter is a full moon than the other phases of the moon? How is the brightness of the moon measured?

The Milky Way and Beyond: Globular Clusters Difficulty = 6
Globular clusters, compact groups of about a million stars that move around together in galaxies, are among the oldest objects found in the universe. Since they are found most galaxies and since they've been around for so long, globular clusters have a lot to tell us about what the universe looks like now and how it got that way. Is our Milky Way Galaxy just like all the other galaxies out there? What are galaxies made of? What can we learn about the universe from looking at galaxies? This project uses statistical analysis of real data to investigate these questions and explore the properties of globular clusters.


Sunspot Cycles Difficulty = 7 – 8
Sunspot activity has been monitored continuously since about 1700. The historical data shows that sunspot activity rises and falls in a roughly 11-year cycle. This project shows you how you can use both graphical and statistical analysis to look for patterns in cyclical data.

Answer 3

Go with Galilelo. He's probably the most famous astronemer and the first guy to use the telescope to do it. (Before that the "spyglass" was used by military, Galilelo improved on it and used it for Astronomy)

Galileo studied the surface of Mars and the Sun (which eventually blinded him) and found scientific evidence for the Copernican or Heliocentric theory, which we now know states that the Earth and all the planets in our solar system revolve around the sun not the Earth as everyone had thought.

The Catholic Church almost executed him for this.

If you report on this you get to show it's significance in modern science, how science can change people's beliefs, how government can repress science they don't like (Global Warming)

And Galileo's so famous he's easy to find stuff on to research.

If this is an elementry or middle school report a good report on is discoveries will do well, if it's for High School a report on exactly how Galilelo proved the Copernican theory is good.

Answer 4

Talk about how the universe is expanding and what relevance that has on the existence of a creator vs. the big bang theory. In either case, the universe had a beginning starting with a central point. Science estimates that the universe is expanding at a rate of half the speed of light. If the big bang is real, where did the energy come from? Something has to have existed for all time.

Answer 5

Dear Mimi,

My name is Hank. I think you should do your paper on mini black holes within our solar system. I know it sounds crazy, but if you go the the url www.space.com you will find info about mini black holes and about a kazillion other subjects about our solar system.

I didn't get to read the entire article, but it sounded very intriguing and got my attention. I probably will check it out at some other time.

If you find mini black holes boring, you can always check out the new theory that our space is actually a membrane and that there are a google of numbers pertaining to membranal space. Don't quote the word membranal, I just made it up.

What the scientists are saying about our space being a membrane constitutes a fifth dimension. They are also saying that it might leave Einstein's theory of field unification in the dust. If I had all the time in the world, I might go this route. Good luck on your paper.

Sincerely, Hank Feral

Answer 6

This is probably way out-of-date, but here goes anyway. There are many possible subjects to choose from. It would depend on the type of audience that you will have. At an elementary school level, a mobile of the planets, with some basic facts about each planet, should do the trick. At a high school level, a project on the life cycle of stars would be appropriate. At university level, something dealing with solar system creation would be interesting. On a grad school level, you wouldn't be asking this question. :-)

Answer 7

Yes. There is an interesting, simple, comparison of energy values of the bodies of our solar system. What is compared is the physical time difference (determined according to the speed of light) between the core point of our sun and planets.

As point of interest, there is a fifteen day time difference, within our planet as compared to us at the crust. This is the physical time difference. As I remember, the difference in our sun is more than 13,000 years. The work has been done in simple math and is easy to understand. If you have an interest, go to http://timebones.blogspot.com and go down to "archives" (I think it's one of the early months). The information is in a short writing called "The Time Structure of The Universe".

Answer 8

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Answer 9

How about red-shift... it is used to determine speed of bodies traveling through space.. or.. how about the quantity of information gathered on astronomy in .. oh.. say the first 100 years since Christ was born.. the second 100 years.. the third.. etc... until you get to present.. oh.. wait.. the amount of information in the last 200 years has exploded to be so massive that is hard to track.. why is that? why so much in the last 40 years? in the last 20 yrs?

Answer 10

The youngest branch of astronomy is astrophysics, the study of how things WORK outside Earth. Write about that.

Or write about space exploration.
C'mon, you don't need a definition!

Answer 11

start with what you know about the stars then go on to the black hole but keep it short and keep in the gudie lines of the project and when you do the paper put where you got the information from or you can get into big trouble. plagerizing so tell where you got it.