Skin is the largest organ in the human body, and it is also the organ that is most susceptible to damage from UV radiation. When Skin is exposed to too much UV radiation, it can sunburn. Sunburns damage the epidermis, or the outer layer of skin. The epidermis is made up of cells called keratinocytes, … Read more
In this report the Indigenous Australian/Aborigine culture was studied over a course of three weeks to learn the significance of the Sun and astronomy to those people. Covered in this report is the indigenous perspectives on the Sun and Moon, the Australian Aborigine creation myth, and the story of the Aboriginal Flag with the Sun … Read more
Nebula is an interstellar cloud of dust, hydrogen, helium and other ionised gasses. The discovery of nebula goes back to the early 1600s. Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc discovered the Orion Nebula in 1610 using a refracting telescope. Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc used this telescope to observe the skies, for example, it was used to observe … Read more
many people can recreate what life was like in a Spanish speaking, neighborhood, barrio, like Gary Soto. Gary Soto was born in Fresno, California to working-class Mexican-American parents in 1952. Soto’s father died when he was 5 years old from a work accident. Soto used this tragedy to help him write later on in life. … Read more
Technology- the house, the robots in the attic, the robot mice. In both stories we died and they are saying that no one would notice if we all died. In both stories the sun rose nearing the end of both the poem and the story – significance: it means that even if we die it … Read more
The sky is illuminated by the sun, only the size of our moon this far out. The red dust swirls with a gust of wind and your movements are slowed by the weight of your spacesuit. Your progress across the barren desert toward the compound that houses the plants you and your companions need to … Read more
Through the hot, cloudless days in the back of North Queensland there is always something beside the sun watching you from the sky. Over the line of the hills or above the long stretches of plains, a black dot swings round and round: and its circles rise slowly or fall slowly, or simply remain at … Read more