I am an education major with a minor in astronomy. Despite what the picture above shows, this is not the NASA tumblr blog, however you will find many space themed posts so feel free to peruse. per request from my boyfriend, please note that I am taken. Thank you ((an rp blog that goes with my college AU. what this is all about you can find Virgil's over at @anxiouslyvirgil. My main is @sanders-specs.Rules and Disclaimers ))
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How to Find Credible Sources
Look for college and university websites:
They usually have publications and online educational material that anyone can access. Look for material written by academics that are knowledgeable in their subject area and find material that is peer reviewed if possible, such as journal papers.
Look at government websites representing government agencies (such as Statistics Canada):
You can either go directly to the websites and search for the information there, or you can use a search engine to find the information. For example, if you want to find articles on turbines from the NASA website you would enter this into Google: “site:http://www.nasa.gov turbines”. This would find turbine related webpages on the NASA website. The general format here is: “site:(website URL) (search term)”.
Search for PDF documents:
You can search for these by entering this into Google: “filetype:pdf (search term)”. But again, check the authors and see who they work for. It’s generally better to have authors who don’t have a conflict of interest, such as those who work for private companies.
The best educator offers the student no more, but no less, than the opportunity to acquire insight into his own nature.
The children should learn to develop the sounds from the external objects and from the way their own feelings are related to them. Everything should be derived from the feeling for language. In the word “roll” the child should really feel: r,o,l,l. It is the same thing for every word.
Rudolf Steiner, The Kingdom of Childhood (via inthenoosphere)
Education must no longer be based upon a syllabus but upon the knowledge of human life.
Maria Montessori, The Absorbent Mind (via inthenoosphere)
Please stop confusing college with education. You can go to college and can still come out uneducated.
#college #education #school #life
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Henry David Thoreau (via lazyyogi)
It is terrible to see how a single unclear idea, a single formula without meaning, lurking in a young man’s head, will sometimes act like an obstruction in an artery, hindering the nutrition of the brain, and condemning its victim to pine away in the fullness of his intellectual vigor and in the midst of intellectual plenty.
Charles Sanders Peirce, “How to Make Our Ideas Clear”, The Essential Peirce, vol 1 (via philosophybits)
“The human faculties of perception, judgment, discriminative feeling, mental activity, and even moral preference, are exercised only in making a choice. He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice. ” – John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
The Search for Starless Planets
While it’s familiar to us, our solar system may actually be a bit of an oddball. Our Milky Way galaxy is home to gigantic worlds with teeny-tiny orbits and planets that circle pairs of stars. We’ve even found planets that don’t orbit stars at all! Instead, they drift through the galaxy completely alone (unless they have a moon to keep them company). These lonely island worlds are called rogue planets.
Where do rogue planets come from?
The planet-building process can be pretty messy. Dust and gas around a star clump together to form larger and larger objects, like using a piece of play-dough to pick up other pieces.
Sometimes collisions and close encounters can fling a planet clear out of the gravitational grip of its parent star. Rogue planets may also form out in space on their own, like the way stars grow.
Seeing the invisible
We’ve discovered more than 4,000 exoplanets, but only a handful are rogue planets. That’s because they’re superhard to find! Rogue planets are almost completely invisible to us because they don’t shine like stars and space is inky black. It’s like looking for a black cat in a dark room without a flashlight.
Some planet-finding methods involve watching to see how orbiting planets affect their host star, but that doesn’t work for rogue planets because they’re off by themselves. Rogue planets are usually pretty cold too, so infrared telescopes can’t use their heat vision to spot them either.
So how can we find them? Astronomers use a cool cosmic quirk to detect them by their effect on starlight. When a rogue planet lines up with a more distant star from our vantage point, the planet bends and magnifies light from the star. This phenomenon, called microlensing, looks something like this:
Imagine you have a trampoline, a golf ball, and an invisible bowling ball. If you put the bowling ball on the trampoline, you could see how it made a dent in the fabric even if you couldn’t see the ball directly. And if you rolled the golf ball near it, it would change the golf ball’s path.
A rogue planet affects space the way the bowling ball warps the trampoline. When light from a distant star passes by a rogue planet, it curves around the invisible world (like how it curves around the star in the animation above). If astronomers on Earth were watching the star, they’d notice it briefly brighten. The shape and duration of this brightness spike lets them know a planet is there, even though they can’t see it.
Telescopes on the ground have to look through Earth’s turbulent atmosphere to search for rogue planets. But when our Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launches in the mid-2020s, it will give us a much better view of distant stars and rogue planets because it will be located way above Earth’s atmosphere — even higher than the Moon!
Other space telescopes would have to be really lucky to spot these one-in-a-million microlensing signals. But Roman will watch huge patches of the sky for months to catch these fleeting events.
Lessons from cosmic castaways
Scientists have come up with different models to explain how different planetary systems form and change over time, but we still don’t know which ones are right. The models make different predictions about rogue planets, so studying these isolated worlds can help us figure out which models work best.
When Roman spots little microlensing starlight blips, astronomers will be able to get a pretty good idea of the mass of the object that caused the signal from how long the blip lasts. Scientists expect the mission to detect hundreds of rogue planets that are as small as rocky Mars — about half the size of Earth — up to ones as big as gas giants, like Jupiter and Saturn.
By design, Roman is only going to search a small slice of the Milky Way for rogue planets. Scientists have come up with clever ways to use Roman’s future data to estimate how many rogue planets there are in the whole galaxy. This information will help us better understand whether our solar system is pretty normal or a bit of an oddball compared to the rest of our galaxy.
Roman will have such a wide field of view that it will be like going from looking at the cosmos through a peephole to looking through a floor-to-ceiling window. The mission will help us learn about all kinds of other cool things in addition to rogue planets, like dark energy and dark matter, that will help us understand much more about our place in space.
Learn more about the Roman Space Telescope at: https://roman.gsfc.nasa.gov/
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Superfluid in Neutron Star’s Core (NASA, Chandra, Hubble, 02/23/11) by NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center
We have calcium in our bones, iron in our veins, carbon in our souls, and nitrogen in our brains. 93 percent stardust, with souls made of flames, we are all just stars that have people names.
— Nikita Gill
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Roman’s Quarantine Quotes:
“How much do you think it would cost to build a small house in the backyard? Remus ate my cereal again and he’s gotta go.”
Satellite imaging has revealed that there are nearly 20% more emperor penguin colonies in Antarctica than previously thought.
However, while the discovery has been welcomed, the previously undiscovered animals will act as “canaries in the coalmine” when it comes to studying the impact of global warming, experts have said.
Scientists discovered 11 new colonies, meaning there are now 61 colonies across the continent overall.
The study, which used satellite mapping technology, will “provide an important benchmark for monitoring the impact of environmental change on the population of this iconic bird,” researchers said.
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If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self—himself—he cannot know it, because he is no longer there to know it.
Dr. Oliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales (via themedicalstate)
Time is such a weird concept, imagine if we could perceive things faster. A second will still have the same value of time but we would have done more in a second than we are even able to fathom now.
To have ruined oneself over poetry is an honour
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (via black-rose-daemon)
Never stop dreaming, never stop believing, never give up, never stop trying, and never stop learning.
— Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
I simply can't relax. My mind is like a brook, always running, always seeking, always murmuring.
— Kahlil Gibran, in a letter to Mary Haskell, from Beloved Prophet: The Love Letters of Kahlil Gibran and Mary Haskell, and her private journal
Blood is always family, but family doesn’t always have to be blood.
V.E.Schwab, Vengeful (via rrstorybook)
If you cannot be the medicine, don't be the poison either.
Sparkandashes via tumblr
I believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.
Veronica Roth, Divergent (via rrstorybook)
Am I so difficult to understand and so easy to misunderstand in all my intentions, plans, and friendships? Ah, we lonely ones and free spirits—it is borne home to us that in some way or other we constantly appear different from what we think. Whereas we wish for nothing more than truth and straightforwardness, we are surrounded by a net of misunderstanding, and despite our most ardent wishes we cannot help our actions being smothered in a cloud of false opinion, attempted compromises, semi-concessions, charitable silence, and erroneous interpretations. Such things gather a weight of melancholy on our brow; for we hate more than death the thought that pretence should be necessary, and such incessant chafing against these things makes us volcanic and menacing. From time to time we avenge ourselves for all our enforced concealment and compulsory self-restraint. We emerge from our cells with terrible faces, our words and deeds are then explosions, and it is not beyond the verge of possibility that we perish through ourselves. Thus dangerously do I live! It is precisely we solitary ones that require love and companions in whose presence we may be open and simple, and the eternal struggle of silence and dissimulation can cease.
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Selected Letters
Virgil called you out lol
He did not “call me out” as much as he stated a fact in a rather in-factual way