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Hello Class!

Please complete the following graphic organizer using tonight's reading assignment. When you're completed with the organizer, please email it to me at emily.elpuente@gmail.com

When you're completed, save it to your desktop at Lastname.FirstName.Date and email it to me as an attachment.

See you tomorrow,

Emily


If you would like to use a different graphic organizer to help you with your homework, please click here. 

HOMEWORK DUE MONDAY 6.2

Find 2 more articles written in 2014 regarding your topic. Then, pull out 4 facts total that would support the message in your PSA.

Good places to look for articles:

Grist 
 
Environmental News Network

Dot Earth NYTimes Blog 


THEN, email me a list of the facts and links to the articles at emily.elpuente@gmail.com

THANK YOU. HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND!!

Evolution of a Massive Star

OR 

Evolution of an Average Star

EXTRA! EXTRA!

A copy of the golden record on display in the Udvar Hazy center in Washington, D.C.

In the 1970s, astronomers and astrophysicists including Carl Sagan created a golden record that included every language and as many different kinds of sounds possible and then shot it into space through the Voyager mission in the hopes of it being found by another civilization.

Then President Jimmy Carter spoke of the mission-
"If one such civilization intercepts Voyager and can understand these recorded contents, here is our message: We are trying to survive our time so we may live into yours. We hope some day, having solved the problems we face, to join a community of Galactic Civilizations. This record represents our hope and our determination and our goodwill in a vast and awesome universe."

What did the team record on this album? 

What would you record on an ipod to be sent to a possible other civilization? 

Hear the entire story here.

APOD 4/23 - A full moon rising over Yosemite Valley, California

A STAR EXPLODES!

A Supernova is the ending a star's life, in the form of a giant explosion
that sweeps up all of the debris that surrounds it, kind of like a giant
gust of wind that picks up all of the litter on the street.

Astronomers have just found a supernova that has swept up enough material
to equal 45 times the mass of the Sun!

Read the rest of the story here.

INDIA'S MARS MISSION HALFWAY COMPLETE!

Inside the Indian Space Research Organization in Bangalore, India
tracking the mission.

The entire mission to Mars is slated to take 11 months ONE WAY. 

Solar System Formation

The following video, narrated by Stephen Hawking outlines the formation of the Solar System.

New Planet Has Been Discovered !

APOD # 8: New Dwarf Planet discovered!
Read about the story here.

Interview with an Astronomer Outline

APOD #7: A National Geographic photographer in Albuquerque, NM shot this
photo of a solar eclipse in 2012.


HERE is a copy of the links to the 3 example interviews that we went over in class.

HERE is a copy of the outline to gather background information on your astronomer.

Variations in Eclipses

APOD #6:  A series of lunar eclipses. After today, see if you can
differentiate between a penumbral eclipse, a partial eclipse and a
total eclipse!

APRIL IS POETRY MONTH !

 APOD #5: Sunrise over Manhattan and the Moon is still out. December 2011 photo by Inga Sarda-Sorenson 

EXTRA CREDIT!!

April is National Poetry Month. Write a poem centered around the moon, stars or astronomy and how it connects to NYC! 

First Photo of Earth from the Moon

APOD #4: First photo of Earth taken from the Lunar Orbiter on August 23, 1966. 

A Portrait of a Galaxy

APOD #3- The Sombrero Galaxy is in the constellation Virgo, approximately 28 million light years away from Earth. This photo was taken by the Hubble Telescope in space. 

APOD #2: Venus in Retrograde

Occasionally, Venus appears to be moving backwards in the sky. "Appears" is the key word here, because, technically speaking, no planet actually moves backwards in their orbits around the Sun. In fact, they don't even slow down. Retrogrades are essentially illusions that result from our point of view from Earth, simply because the Earth is also orbiting the Sun at a different speed than the other planets. Venus is Retrograde approximately 40-43 days every 18 months.

If you believe in astrology, be careful of what you try to do when Venus is in retrograde! 

APOD #1!

"This new Hubble image is centered on NGC 5793, a spiral galaxy over 150 million light years away in the constellation of Libra. This galaxy has two striking features: a beautiful dust lane, and an intensely bright center." - phys.org

APOD, or astronomy photo of the day, takes a look at what is happening in the universe around us through photos. Submissions ARE WELCOME AND ENCOURAGED. A photo that qualifies is anything having to do with outside our atmosphere. Photos can be current, but don't have to be.