What makes the Northern Lights?

Aurora Borealis

Magnetic forces make the Northern Lights.

The way it works is that the Earths magnetic force is surrounded by the sunlight and the sunlight shines through the magnetic field like it's shining on a piece of glass and makes a rainbow in its reflection on a wall.

On the ice caps and Arctic/Antartic circles are where there is barely any of our magnetism forces on the poles of the north and the south is the Aurora Borealis.

Is Pluto a Planet?

Is Pluto a planet?

I watched Nova Science Now. There was a rocket scientist, and he thought that Pluto was not a planet. Watching the Pluto Files, I think that Pluto is a planet BUT still many people just disagree and think Pluto is not a planet and is just a piece of the Kuiper belt with a bunch of dust-clomping leftovers with many Dwarf stars/Dwarf planets/debris.

There were a whole bunch of third-graders who were sending the rocket scientist from the show a lot of hate-mail saying like:Pluto IS a planet,and we like Pluto so why not call it a planet anymore. Click here to see some of this hate mail: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/pluto/mail-flash.html

Don't forget to vote on the Pluto survey!

Black Holes

black hole
When you are in a black hole there is a whole bunch of pressure and when you reach the disc of the black hole it starts to tear you apart into a size of trillions of atoms.



Black hole can be as big as 1 billion suns or as small as 20 million suns.(mass)

Visible Planets

Eastern Time

Venus: sets: Mar.11 at 6:56 Mar.21 at 8:20 Apr.1 at 8:48 Apr.11 at 9:13 Apr.21 at 9:39 May.1 at 10:03 May.11 at 10:24 May.21 at 10:41

Mars:sets: Mar.11 at 4:19 Mar.21 at 4:40 Apr.1 at 4:01 Apr.11 at 3:28 Apr.21 at 2:57

May.1 at 2:27 May11 at 1:58 May.21 at 1:30

Jupiter:rise:Mar.11 at 5:50 Mar.21 at 6:16 Apr.1 at 5:39 Apr.11 at 5:05 Apr.21 at 4:31 May.1 at 3:56 May.11 at 3:21 May.21 at 2:46

Saturn:sets: Mar.11 at 6:48 Mar.21 at 7:07 Apr.1 at 6:22 Apr.11 at 5:41 Apr.21 at 5:01 May.1 at 4:20 May.11 at 3:40 May.21 at 3:00

Conjunctions Part 2

pluto

Mar.3 was when a conjunction between Uranus and Venus.

Mar.4-Mar.6 there is not going to be a single conjunction.

Mar.7 is when there is going to be a conjunction between Mercury and Jupiter.

Mar.8 is when there is going to be a conjunction between Pluto and the moon.

Mar.9-Mar.12 there is not a single conjunction.

Mar.13 is when there is a conjunction between Neptune and the moon.

Mar.14 Day -light saving times begins.Mar.14 is when the is a cojunction between Jupiter and the moon.

Eclipses

Jan. 14 is when the Sun had going to have a partial solar eclipse. This was not seen in the U.S.

June 25 - 26 is when the moon going to to have a lunar eclipse.This is going to be seen visibly in Hawaii.

July 11 is when the sun is going to have an annual solar eclipse. This will not be seen in the U.S.

Dec.21 is when the moon will have a lunar eclipse.This will fully be visible in the U.S.

Moon Phases

My class is studying Sun, Moon, and Stars so I decided to share the phases of the moon for tonight, last night, tomorrow night, and the night after that.

Last night the moon was a waning gibious.

Tonight the moon is going to be a last quarter moon

Tomorrow it will be a waning crecsent moon.

The next night it will still be a waning cecsent but smaller.

Conjunctions!

Conjunctions are when planets and/or stars meet in the same line.

Tonight, there is going to be a conjunction between neptune and the moon.

March is Saturn's month. It is closest to the earth.

Saturn will be bright this month.