Hello everyone! Sorry there was no weekly topic last week, but weāre back and weāre reaching for the stars.
Thereās a lot of news circulating about the Perseid Meteor Shower, and being that August is often a great time of year to catch shooting stars, we wanted to get celestial with this weekly topic. What is your favorite thing about the night sky?
Does the moon captivate you and is there a specific moon phase that you find coolest? Are constellations where itās at? Have you seen a shooting star? Have you ever seen a celestial body through a telescope? Or maybe you just like looking at the stars? Letās talk about it!
I love the fact that there are two parts to our night sky here in the northern hemisphere: The northern sky, which stays constant, and the southern sky, which is ever-changing.
In the winter, I say hello to Orion on every clear night because he is so dominant in the sky. In the summertime, Iām usually drawn to Cygnus.
I also love seeing the planets. Mars and Venus are super easy to identify; Jupiter and Saturn are a little tougher to distinguish. Just the fact that we can see a planet as far away as Saturn with the unaided eye is amazing to me.
Stars are balls of fire, I donāt see anything special. But no offense to anyone who likes the stars, of course! Shooting stars are meteorites, which is debris that fall, and they turn into balls of fire, which is known as shooting stars. But itās just raining fire, whatās so cool about that? Iāve seen some constellations, but they just look like lines, I donāt see anything but lines, and lines, and thatās what it seems to me. For example: Isnāt that beatiful? People might ask, but isnāt that justā¦lines?
Iām a huge fan of just star gazing. Thereās something about seeing those flecks of light in the sky that makes me very happy. I do enjoy finding constellations, but Iām not the greatest at identifying them.
Where I live there is so much light pollution that iāve never seen a single star from there. However I have seen some spectacular blood moons and some eerie nights with the light of the city turning the night sky a muddy yellow
Same. Every winter a 5:00 I wake up and look at Orion.
But my favorite constellation is Scorpio my constellation which I can always find because of the tail.
What??? Constellations are NOT just ālinesā, and stars are not āballs of fireā!!! Theyāre not even fire!!! Itās plasma!!!
To āstarāt of stars create the very elements that make up everything around us, including you and me. Every single atom in your body was forged by nebulae, aka star dust. So, when you look at the stars, youāre looking at the origins of everything we know. Literally you are 100% star.
Also, you gave shooting stars, and meteorites such little credit! Theyāre remnants from the early solar system, and an extremely rare thing to see! I canāt even stress how many times Iāve tried to see one, and all I can say is, when you do see it, itās not just āraining fireā.
As for constellations, THEY ARE NOT JUST LINES!!! They are a representation of human imagination over CENTURIES!
Venus!
Itās the brightest and hottest planet in our solar system! And it has the most earth-like conditions in our solar system aside from earth itself, although it is miles high in the clouds. It was proven to once have had a moon that crashed into its surface, although it does currently have the first ever discovered quasi-moon , or a moon that technically orbits the sun (making it an asteroid) but its orbit lines up so perfectly with venusās that it appears to orbit venus and is affected by its gravity! Its name is zoozve : 3 I could go on forever; I was named partly after Venus, although not in the āgod of loveā way, in the ātwin to earthā way!
My favorite thing about the night sky is the constellations. Connecting the dots and recognizing ancient patterns is magical. I also love watching meteor showers like the Perseidsāsuch a beautiful reminder of how vast the universe is!"
Constellations are lines of stars, therefore they are lines, stars are balls of fire, not plasma, as the sun is made of fire, and is a star.
Iām literally not a star, the things around me are not stars. And if they were, theyād by fire, because stars are made out of fire. When meteorites fall, the break apart and become a shooting star, and stars are fire, so it is āraining fireā.
Bruh, those things I said were FACTS, you know. For example, stars are made of plasma. Look it up if you donāt believe me. I think youāre just arguing for arguement sake. Everything I said was the truth, a FACT. It was not opinion based.
