Astronomy Project?

Question

I am a senior in high school and in an astronomy class. We have a project and we can do it on anything we want.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

Here is a site I can highly recommend because it has several projects that range from basic to advanced, and that let you repeat for yourself some of the most important discoveries in astronomy.

http://cas.sdss.org/dr5/en/

On the home page there are a set of links under science projects. There is a "basic" one where you print out spectra of a set of galaxies and then 1) note that the universe is expanding, and then 2) compute the expansion rate drawing a Hubble Graph. This is totally cool.

There are projects on identifying stars classes by their spectra, and a range of other things. If you really are interested in Astronomy and want to do some of the research work that astronomers actually do, this site is for you.

HTH

Charles

Answer 2

Yes.

I read on one Internet site that some 200 planets had been cataloged so far orbiting stars outside our Solar System.
I think that it would be fantastic to gather up that information
on those planets and the stars that they are associated with.

Key to this data collection project would be the mapping of
the universe on some kind of drawing that would show our
Sun and its relationship to those other stars - distance to them
- and planets they have.

Just trying to make sense of things enough to make suitable
maps will be a real project that should blow everyone's mind.
All you ever hear people talk about is the 9 planets we all know about, the Moon, and the Sun.

Take a look at Space dot com
Take a look at curious.cornell.edu
Take a look at NASA.gov for info on planets outside our
solar system.

I think they called the foreign planets "exosolarplanets." That
means planetes which are not in our solar system. Check it
out. I think you will have a jim dandy project if you dig into it a bit.
Make prints of any photo documentation you find and be ready to share and explain it to your classmates. Knowing the names of some of these new planets and name of their star (sun) should place you head and shoulders above lots of folks...

Good luck.

Answer 3

Mercury is going to transit (bypass in front of) the sunlight on November 8th. you ought to use the possibility to calculate how briskly Mercury is shifting, how great it fairly is, etc. Get somebody with a telescope and a photo voltaic filter out (under no circumstances look at the sunlight by way of an unprotected telescope!) to assist out. there's a good possibility the transit would be webcast via some college astronomy departments in case you will no longer be able to track down a telescope.

Answer 4

Get in touch with me, I have pictures of the space shuttle exploding as it entered into the earths atmosphere. Pictures of faraway places using the Hubble telescope and the earth as it appears at night. [e-mail]. These pictures you can use as sights from outer space.