Astronomy
The love of my life.
The love of my life.
As many of you may have already known from my daily screaming in class, I have a weird obsession with astronomy (just a friendly reminder: it's astronomy not astrology okay...astrology is the study of zodiac signs and stuff—no offense to astrology but it is not an actual branch of science! Sooooo y'all should stop mixing those two up...I am very close to giving you guys an entire lecture on the differences between them). Okay back to the main topic: being the most mysterious branch of science, astronomy has always been a common field of research where scientists and astronomers all over the world spend almost their entire lives trying to explore the deepest unknowns of our universe. Humankind first began with the exploration of our own galaxy, the Milky Way, and later advanced toward the development of different strategies and technologies that can be used to measure cosmic distances and detect celestial objects light years away from our Earth. I would recommend you guys to read this article from Science News: "A century of astronomy revealed Earth's place in the universe." Author Lisa Grossman neatly documents a timeline of the remarkable astronomical discoveries and historical space events that took place over the last 100 years. It is certainly a worthwhile experience to take a look at this article for even just a few minutes to understand how astronomy has and will continue to revolutionize our thinking far beyond the surface of this small and lonely planet that we belong to.
Mostly just memorization
This basically involves the general understanding of astronomy topics: stellar evolution, Hertzsprung-Russell diagram, galaxy formation, variable stars, dark matter, dark energy, and cosmological timeline.
Sooooo pretty
DSOs (deep-sky objects) are celestial objects that exist outside our Solar System. You guys will probably never have to deal with them in your life unless you're competing for Science Olympiad, though.
Guess who sucks at it
Some common astro math topics: angular motion, apparent/absolute magnitude, cosmological distances (very important !!!!), Hubble's law, binary systems, black holes, neutron stars, and blackbody radiation.
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