This post is just a brief outline of what to expect in each following posts. Feel free to use this as a "contents page."
Post 1:
Introduction to black holes: What are they? Where do they
come from? What are they made up of (anatomy).
Post 2:
What black holes do: how light and matter are absorbed and
bent
Prac and Discussion: How light is bent around black holes. Using mattress, bowling balls and marbles.
Prac and Discussion: How light is bent around black holes. Using mattress, bowling balls and marbles.
Post 3:
Introduction to Nebulae: What are they? Where do they come
from? What are they made of? Types of Nebulae
Post 4:
Stars life cycle: The different stages (diagrams, gif,
video). What causes the different stages? What happens in each stage?
Post 5:
Stars: Hertzsprung-Russell diagram, eclipsing binary stars,
pulsating variable stars, double star supernovas, parallax (experiment)
Post 6:
Other Solar systems: Wobbling stars, defining AU, chart
showing some other planetary systems showing AU from star and planet size, deep
space probes,
Post 7:
Galaxies and Star Clusters: difference between star clusters
and galaxies, types of galaxies (project: swirling paper dots to show spiral
galaxies), the Milky Way, the local group.
Post 8:
The Universe and how it is expanding: History of the
universe (brief big bang explanation), experiment.
Post 9:
Quiz on everything learnt in the blog duration. (link to quiz and description). The quiz will be created by myself on another site.
There are separate posts for the Bibliography and the Glossary. Each post, at the end will have a few research questions in order to expand on what the topic was in each post.
Thank you and enjoy :)
Emily.
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