ummmm what is a good science project in astronomy?

Question

i am required to do a project but i cant think of anything.......

Answer 1

i was thinkin bout building a simple telescope.. if they could do it hundred of years ago then nowadayz it shouldn't be a problem. you can google the topic to find many sites with projects on the topic

Answer 2

Pick a topic and use images from the internet. There are tons of HST pictures, but even tons more from all sources. So, my astronomy club has two talks a month. Most of them work this way. Pick a topic. SETI, the Big Bang, and so on. Research it. Put together a story, flesh it out with images. It's a big Universe, so despite 24 talks a year, there is seldom a year with two talks on the same topic. Once we had two talks scheduled with nearly the same titles, and the talks were still non-overlapping. You could go on for a long time just on the Mars rovers. Or just the Cassini spacecraft findings. Or just following a single exploding star, like the one that created the Crab nebula. Pick something. I'm sure we can give you hints on where it might go. You could rent time on a telescope, getting any pictures you want. Back to the crab. Get an historic image of the crab nebula. Take a modern picture with slooh - and compute how far back in time it must have exploded. Does it match the expected date (i forget, was it 1066?). But you might be able to get a modern HST image, and an old one from the Hale, like from the 40's or 50's.

Answer 3

I like the scale model solar system. Not your typical 1st grade cheapo non-scale solar system where all the planets are close to the same size and the Sun is hardly bigger than the planets and it all fits on a table, but a true scale one where the ball representing the Sun is 100 times wider than the one for Earth and the Earth is placed at the correct distance from the Sun. For example, if the Sun is a basketball and Earth is a 1/10 inch pinhead, then it is 89 feet from the basketball Sun. See the sources.

Answer 4

Go to google earth and look at the new google sky. You can use the motion of the planets and come up with a project or use the motion of the moon to come up with a project.

Answer 5

How about building your own solar viewing device similar to a sunspotter?

http://www.space.com/spacereportersnetwo...

That would be easier to do, fun to see sunspots at your fair, and you could use it later for eclipses too.

My club owns a Sunspotter and it is a great tool.

Source(s):

http://www.space.com/spacereportersnetwo...

Answer 6

show how the sun works by creating a fusion reaction. be sure to be 100 miles away when you do so.

Answer 7

why not make a solor system