There are many constellations in the night sky that can be seen in different seasons. All of the constellations were named in Latin, because that was the first language. The constellations were mostly named by Egyptians and Arabs. They named the constellations after many of their gods and godesses, which all had myths and stories behind them. A couple of them were Osiris and Orion. Osiris was seen as the god of the underworld and vegetation. He was thought to have taught the Egyptians how to farm. Orian was the god of winter skis and he rules the heavens with his dog Sirius at his feet.
Leo
Leo was a strong powerful lion who was the 'king' of his jungle! The jungle was huge and absolutely beautiful with lovely green plants that covered the ground with tropical fruits and florescent flowers growing in all directions. All of the trees reached up so high you could barely even see the top any more and made a nice shade from their canopies for the ground below. The entire community of animals, living under Leo's power, lived in perfect peace and harmony until one day when a horrible tiger decided to entrude the jungle.
They ferocious tiger named Terry started tearing apart the joungle nocking down trees with little force for him, trampling over plants, and harming other animals. Leo knew he had to do something, along with all of the other animals to help fight for their land! They tried to fight back and to defeat Terry the tiger, but they later found out that he had brought friends with him. Leo's little community was destroyed and defeated by the tigers but his spirit still lives on. If you look in the stars, which are best seen in the northern hemisphere in spring, you will see the outline of Leo, and because of his good deeds and his courage of fighting the tigers his spirit will always live on among us.
Technology
How far do you think that astronomy technology could go in the future? Scientists become more and more dilligent with collaboration by the year. With all of the information they have gathered in the past few years if they keep progressively getting information like they have been we will have found out a ton more information in the next ten years. With all of the technology we have Earth should be able to predict weather much more accurately and possibly even have someone walk on Mars by the year 2020.
South Africa is considered very advanced in astronomy technology and they recently made an extremely accurate telescope. This telescope called The Southern Africa Large Telescope (SALT) was one of their biggest achievements. The telescope has a hexagonal mirror array that measures 11 meters across the whole telescope. SALT is the most efficient telescope in the southern hemisphere and is extremely accurate which gives scientist information on the atmosphere.
Other advancements South Africa has made besides the telescope is doing research and development of technology. It has come to their attention that it's important for our world to start trying to clean up the huge carbon footprint we have left on our planet. They're working on using clean renewable energy instead of using gas or oil and this is a huge step in helping out our planet. Not only is Africa starting try and make a difference in counter-acting the human carbon footprint, they are getting other countries involved too by organizing confrences where collaboration on this issue can take place.
Africa isn't the only place making a difference in key astronomy technology movements. The United states is also finding more and more out through research and finding out how to gather more information. They've made many sadelites that they launch into space to orbit the Earth. These satelites tell us what the weather will be and provides the world with a constant stream of data conserning space.
With all of the previous technology and information scientists have it will just keep expanding more and more by the year, and if it keeps at the same rate we most likely will have gathered a ton of information by 2020. Scientists should make it a goal to have somone landed on another planet by 2020, because technology keeps improving really quickly. Global warming has become a huge problem and if our planet doesn't start making changes then it will end up highly polluted. They have started to think of alternate energies and the alternate options are getting more and more advanced.
Information has been pooring in and technology has been getting better and better. All of the new satelites and tests that have been going on in Africa are giving us enough information that could help us make other technology advancements. Alternate energies are becoming more and more readiliy available and they're finding different ways to use them and that also helps a lot. With all that we know now in about the next 10 years our planet will be very highly advanced with technology.
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Origin of the Universe
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Theories on Creation of the Universe
Over time there have been many theories on how the universe was formed yet no one can prove that one of the theories is actually the truth. It is now 2011 and still nobody has found out for sure how the world has formed. There are theories from what they believed in ancient Egypt all the way up to one of the more common theories now, which is the big bang theory. Although there are many theories, people can't be credulous to any one idea because there are so many possible ideas and facts that can support and try to prove against other theories, so that's why it's important to consider all of the theories and keep an open mind about them.
One of the very first theories ever to be made on astronomy was by ancient Egypt. Ancient Egypt believed that the universe was a giant rectangular prism with Egypt at the center of the bottom of the rectangle. Their belief was that the sun light was huge lamps that hung down from the stars. Most of the people near them thought very similar things and had the same concept of being in a rectangular prism.
After Ancient Egypt one of the more farther advanced in astronomy was ancient Greece. In Ancient Greece they started a little more logical beliefs and that's when they realized that the world was a sphere. They also came up with the circumference of the Earth accurately within about 300 Km. of what they say it is now. Although they made these discoveries, most of the astronomers thought that everything revolved around the Earth instead of the Earth revolving around the sun. Aristarchus was the first to say that the earth revolved around the sun but the majority of the people still believed it was the other way around.
From ancient Greece to present day the possible beliefs have changed a lot. Many of them now are based on religion stating that god created the universe and everything in it. One of the most probable beliefs, and more popular belief, without having to do with religion is the Big Bang Theory. A brief explanation of the Big bang theory is that the universe used to be in just an extremely hot dense mass but it grew and expanded and gradually broke apart to create all of our planets. There are many facts to help support this theory and it's the one that seems the most probable.
Some of the theories like the ones they had in ancient Egypt have been proved wrong now and we know for a fact that most of what they believed has no way of being true, although they have come up with many other more probable theories recently. To fully understand what and make judgments on what theory a person decides to believe it's important to know many of them and keep an open mind to what may or may not be true. In present day, unless you believe a theory that has to do with religion, the big bang theory is believed more commonly by scientists, and is supported by strong reasoning and that's why it seems the most likely to be true.
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