Jupiter

Jupiter is a planet and is the fifth planet in the solar system. It measures 142,984 km being the largest planet. It is part of the so-called outer or gaseous planets. It is named after the Roman god Jupiter (Zeus in Greek mythology). Take fifty million (750 million) kilometers from the Sun and six hundred and sixty million (660 million) kilometers. Its color depends on the clouds that make up its atmosphere, from space we can see two bands of orange and white. Jupiter is that it has the shortest day in the solar system - it only takes nine hours and fifty-five minutes to turn around and makes Jupiter slightly flattened in shape. Galileo discovered them in 1610 (1610) using a telescope that he made. Observed from Earth, it is the second-brightest planet in the sky, after Venus. Jupiter's atmosphere is made up mostly of hydrogen and helium, just like the Sun.

Solar system

The solar system is the planetary system in which the Earth and other astronomical objects are found that rotate directly or indirectly in an orbit around a single star known as the Sun. ... The solar system was formed about 4.6 billion years ago from the collapse of a molecular cloud.

The constellations

A constellation is a set of fixed stars or unrelated stars that form an imaginary pattern. Claudius Ptolemy: The oldest known complete collection of constellations dates back to Claudius Ptolemy, who in the second century BC. Presented / displayed a catalog of 1022 stars, grouped in 48 constellations.

How to find it easily:

Place yourself in an area without light, and if possible choose a day when there is no full moon. ...

Always look from right to left, counterclockwise. ...

No telescope or special equipment is required.

To orient ourselves at night we must find the North Star in the constellation of the Little Bear, which marks the North in the Northern Hemisphere, and the constellation of the Southern Cross, in the hemisphere. South, this constellation marks a direction to an imaginary point where we find the South.

Important constellations:

1. Ossa Major

2. Ossa Menor

3. Taurus

4. Orion

History of Ossa Major:

According to Greek mythology, the great bear is represented by Calixtus, who was a nymph of Artemis and like her goddess, had to remain a virgin. Nevertheless Zeus fell in love with her and seduced it leaving pregnant and when finding out Artemisa, as punishment transformed in this to Calixto to give hunting him.

 

Big Bang

 The Big Bang Theory is the main explanation of how the universe began. In its simplest form, it says that the universe as we know it began with a small singularity. In modern cosmology, the origin of the universe is the moment when all the matter and energy that we currently have in the universe appeared as a result of a big bang. This postulate is openly accepted by science today and implies that the universe could have originated between 13,500 and 15 billion years ago. The Big Bang is how astronomers explain the way the universe began. It is the idea that the universe started as a single point, then expanded and stretched to grow as large as it is now, and is still expanding!

Famous astronomers timeline

Famous astronomers

 

Name: Edwin Hubble.

Date of birth: November 20, 1889

Main thought: Tycho thought that progress in astronomy  could not be achieved through occasional observations and occasional research, but that systematic measurements were needed, night after night, with the most accurate instruments possible.

Name: Johannes Kepler.

Date of birth: February 19, 1473.

Main thought: He tried to understand them about planetary motion. At first, Kepler considered that the motion of the planets had to comply with the Pythagorean laws of harmony.

 

Name: Tycho Brahe.

Date of birth: November 15, 1738.

Main thought: Tycho thought that progress in astronomy could not be achieved through occasional observations and occasional research, but that systematic measurements were needed, night after night, with the most accurate instruments possible.

Name: Nicolaus Copernicus.

Date of birth: February 19, 1473.

Main thought: The main ideas of his theory were: The celestial movements are uniform, eternal and circular or consist of several cycles (epicycles). The center of the universe is near the Sun. ... The retrograde motion of the planets is explained by the motion of the Earth.

Name: Ptolemy.

Date of birth: 100 AD

Main thought: He believed that the Earth was motionless and occupied the center of the universe and that the Sun, Moon, planets, and stars revolved around it. ... The retrograde of the planets and their increase in brightness as they retrograde.

Vocabulary of astronomy

Light year

Astronomer

Solar system

Milky Way

Planet

Space

Moon

Telescopes

Ground

New

Star

Constellation

Meteorite

Asteroids

Satellite

Black hole

Universe

Galaxy

Big bang

Special ship

Saturn rings

gravity

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