Blog post 10: Comets

Blog post 9: Shooting Star

A falling star or what we called shooting star is everyone of us already saw. People believe that if you saw a shooting star you should make a wish before the shooting star gone. So whenever people saw a shooting star they make their wish before it disappear. I want to saw a shooting star again because I don't remember when was the first time I saw one. 

According to Fraser Cain in the article entitled "what is a shooting star" in the website universetoday.com. Shooting star is not a star at all its a meteoroid. Shooting star or what we called meteoroid is as small as a sand and as large like a boulder. Astronomer called the small one interplanetary dust and the large one is the asteroids. We can't called shooting star a star because its just a dust and a rock that fall into our earths atmosphere and its burning up. I think it burn when it fall because of the pressure and the speed it has when it fall in the earths atmosphere. Falling star or even Shooting star what ever we called it its not star at all its just a outer space rock or dust that fall onto the earths atmosphere. Shooting star is not a wishing star that granted our wishes in life its just a rock or a dust that come from the outer space. 

Whether its a falling star, shooting star or a meteoroid its just a star where people make wish and believe that their wish will come true. But its not the shooting star or the falling star that make our wish come true its our self and our determination to do it that make all the things possible for everyone of us. Everyone of us is just like a star that deserve to twinkle. Lets not depend our own destiny to the star because we our self make our own destiny.

Blog post 8: Meteor Shower

A meteor shower is like a rain of diamond that fall from the sky. When observing or watching you feel relaxed and a night view that full of a raining stars. I really wish to see a meteor shower in real life because its like full of light that is falling a from the sky like a rain. I hope in future I myself see it on my on eyes.

According to David K. Lynch in the article "what cause a meteor shower" in the website geology.com. There are two kinds of meteor the sporadic meteor and the shower meteor. This two meteor is different to each other because the sporadic meteor is like a random bits in the solar system dust that rotates around the sun. Its the one most people see with their naked eyes while gazing the night sky. The sporadic meteor is seldom exceed five per hour. The shower meteor come from the dust that a comets released that travel to our solar system. The meteor shower occurs when the earth itself pass  the trail debris that happened on its yearly orbit around the sun. It only last in a few hours. Even though its a sporadic or shower meteor its a rare view that all of as may not see because it sometimes happened in some specific place in the earth so not all of us may saw it in real life.

I don't know if its an article or a news entitled "draconid meteor shower 2013 to peak tonight after sunset" by Meredith Bennett-Smith in the website huffingtonpost.com. The draconid meteor shower are best observe in the early evening. They said that the sky watchers can optimize the viewing experience by staying away from bright lights so that their eyes can adjust to the darkness at least 20 minutes before the meteor shower. The draconid meteor shower is come from the constellation name draco or dragon. Its like a annual event that happened in october. They say that it happened when earth travel through dust and ice trailing from the comet giacobini-zinner. Its like every meteor shower has its own peak season where you can see them.

Meteor shower happens in many country. I don't really know if the meteor shower already happened in the Philippines. Because I only hear about the eclipse news here but not meteor shower so I wonder when it happens to have a meteor shower in the Philippines.

Blog post 7: Star Wars

Even though I'm not fun of watching star wars it just interested me because of my topic stars and its kin of related to my blog post no. 6. So I just decided to write a blog post about star wars. I just read summary of star wars, its history and I found a novel about it. 

In the article entitled "what star wars is about" by Amelia Hill in the website scifi.about.com. The star wars is a trilogy a story about a hero's journey. It like that the tragic hero that updated to epic space battle. Star wars has a big impact in the viewers it also crossing the generational and cultural lines. It also state their that George Lucas called the expanded universe the parallel universe, its like a story that don't intrude into a world. Like a different world that you live on that does not exist in such time this days. Just like Lucas he don't like have a control over the world that he what to made in the star wars. Its like losing self control over your dream world that don't exist.

Like many movie or fiction their are truth behind those things, so I end up wondering what is the truth behind the fiction star wars an I found a article entitled "the truth behind fiction" by Charles E. Herzog in the website realtruth.org. The star wars is similar to the matrix movie its has a biblical truth and was mixed with much fiction. Because of fiction that extremely popular that appear mysteries in life so everyone find it appealing and interesting. It has biblical truth because the star wars portrays the battle between evil and good that is similar to the bible. Star wars is like a fantasy that may connect to a present world that many things have connection or related to that movie into our world.

I just think that good will over come evil. I know that star wars may means so many things to people but it may means to them in many different ways. It may change people point of view or perspective in their life. It may connect in our world today that we face in our economy or population that we have today.

Blog post 6: Death star

Death is the end for the people who live in this world but for stars its like just a new start for them. This death star, I'm talking about is not the literal meaning of a star that died. But its the death star in the movie star wars. Though I did not watch the movie star wars, I just found it will researching for the new topic or title for my blog post.

 

According to in the article entitled "the concept of the death star " in the website starwars.wikia.com. "A Death Star was a moon-sized Imperial military battle station armed with a planet-destroying super laser". In the movie the empire develop it to a weapon to destroy all the planets. Death star is like a terror instrument that meant force rebel worlds to surrender under the threat of destruction. Its like the evidence of evil nature of the empire and a proof of their great weakness. It is designed to allow the emperor to control ore directly the galactic empire through fear. In the movie star wars the death star was destroyed by the rebel alliance.

After reading some summary of star wars, I wonder how does the death star work and found an article entitled "how the death star work" by Robert Valdes in the website entertainment.howstuffworks.com. The death star is the solution to order that the galactic empire think of. Its like a law or a threat to people so they don't rebel on the order that was given. It takes more than a million of military personnel to run the death star which size is like the small moon. Death star can travel at a superluminal velocities but its real power lies on the super laser. Because it is capable of firing a beam that is directed powerful energy that can destroy any planet regardless of its size. Its like the death star represents the absolute pinnacle of military engineering and technology.

 

In life just like the death star, people sometimes use technology in bad ways or to rule over a thing that they want to get. Just like using your power to order the people you want to do the things that they don't want to do. Either using the technology or your power to rule over is not a good thing we should use it in a good way that all of us can benefit to it.  

Blog post 5: Life Cycle

It all started at life. We all know that all of us in this earth has their own way of living life. But we don't know where or when it will end after living a life with fulfillment. Just like people, stars are born they live their lives and they die. Of course, I'm talking about stars, and the way they’re born.

According to Fraser Cain in the article "Life cycle of star" in the website www.universetoday.com. "Stars live and die is completely different in the life in earth". Like people star has its own life cycle. It has first until to the last cycle. Stars life cycle is different in our life cycle because its only a matter of months before we born but stars hundreds of thousand years before they become a star. It pass through many process like when a baby is born it under go examinations. After the life it will comes to end just like us its only a matter of how many years we will live in this earth. Stars also has its end but it will take billions of years before the star end its life.

I wonder and think about what happened to the star when it dies. So I found an article entitled "Why do stars burn and what happened when they die?" by Andrew Zimmerman Jones in the website physics.about.com. After the star comes to its end it has many process that will happen. The burning of that body is just like the process of the burning of stars. Its like cremating people who died. This period of the burning is what most of us think as the life of a star, and it's in this phase that we see most stars up in the heavens. In the burning process it generate pressure its like you heating air inside a balloon. Then the cooling of the stars will take place until the death of the star where itself against the gravity will collapse into white dwarf. It's possible that when the star is dying it might go through a supernova. If the mass continue to collapse under its gravitational force it will cause a black hole.

Even though its a human or a living thing like a person and a star we all have a life cycle where and when it will end. The life cycle of the star and our life cycle is different we can just say that all the thing in this world has their own origin and it will have to end in the right time. 

Blog post 4: Constellation

We can define stars as out of reach, guide, light, mysterious, faith and relaxing. Like a fairy tail that is out of reach. A light that guide us in our struggles. Like a love that is mysterious that leads our life. Faith that helps you think of what will happened next. Relaxing like sweeping away your doubts. Stars of our life turned where the heaven looking back at you with thousands of eyes.

In the article Stargazing: Finding the Stars and Constellations in The Old Farmer's Almanac for Kids, Volume 2 in the website www.almanac.com. They identify 88 patterns that help people navigate on land and by sea as well as tell time using star that appears in different parts of the sky. Constellation has great significance that has been given to the celestial objects seen in the sky. Constellation is a group of stars that visible related to in a particular configuration. The stars in a constellation or asterism rarely have any astrophysical relationship to each other; they just happen to appear close together from Earth and typically lie very far apart in space. Also in this article it explain way they found the different patterns they have or they observe.

While doing my research in constellation I think about how constellation got their names so, I found a article entitled "How The Night Sky Constellation Got Their Names" by Joe Rao in the website www.livescience.com. The 48 constellation are known as ancient or original. Its just like in Greek or Babylonian time the 48 constellation names come from like they name it in some of their gods. The other half was the modern constellation that discover by the astronomers and give it a name. But the most know constellation are the 12 zodiac sign that people believe for their daily fortune and others base it for their lucky charms or even a guide for a day. Giving names in the star patterns or the constellation is like giving name to all the living things we have in this earth like us our parents think about our names carefully.

Constellation is like the quote made by Confucius "Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated." Because star constellation and gazing at the stars is complicated in various things while life become complicated when it comes to challenges and problems we have in our daily life. Star constellation may help higher the hope of other people because of the pattern the stars form or so called zodiac signs that many of us believe in.