Homework

Assignment #1

#1. Widening the field of view by a factor of 100 allows you to see an area 1 mile in diameter in figure 1-2. You are now able to view the entire college campus plus its surrounding streets and houses.

#2. My largest dimension of me a having personal sensory experience would be me flying in a plane to go to a different country. The field of view grew wider and everything from the sky looked smaller.

#3. The Solar System is our local neighborhood, that is, the sun and its planets, one planetary system. The Galaxy contains our Solar System plus billions of other stars and the planets that orbit around them. The Universe includes everything; all of the galaxies, stars and planets.

#4. The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite. It is one of the largest natural satellites in the Solar System and among planetary satellites, the largest relative to the size of the planet it orbits. A moon is defined to be a celestial body that makes an orbit around a planet, including the eight major planets, dwarf planets, and minor planets.

#5. Pluto is considered a “dwarf planet”, because it is small and not alone in its orbit. Pluto is one of a group of small objects that have been discovered circling the Sun beyond Neptune.

#6. Light years are more convenient, because it is always convenient to use a unit of measure that is approximately the same size as the object or distance being measured.

#7. It is difficult to detect extra-solar planets, because they are generally too small, faint and too close to the glare of their respective parents stars.

#8. The size of the star image in a photograph tells you, the stars brightness not its actual size.

#9. The Milky Way Galaxy is our galaxy and the Milky Way is the combined light of billions of stars in our Milky Way Galaxy.

#10. Yes, you are seeing spiral arms of the Milky Way Galaxy. This is where stars are formed from clouds of gas and dust.

#11. The largest known structure in the Universe...