Summary Reflection of Astronomy Blog

I would say that my overall experience doing this astronomy blog was a good. I feel like I learned a lot of information about different astronomical areas and field through my observations. I have never studied anything related to astronomy before, so having the opportunity to look into to a new area of science was very interesting. The two main areas that I focused on the most were the different Zodiac constellations and the moon phases. I have always been interested in these different constellations. I felt like I was able to learn more about the history and meaning behind the constellations. Also, the information that I looked up about these constellations, I was surprised to learn that these constellations contained so many stars with known planets. I was not aware that there were so many other planets in the universe that are not really mentioned. I would like to why these other planets are just not categorized like the other big planets we are aware of. I also found it interesting that of the forty-eight constellations, all of them were discovered by the same second century astronomer, Ptolemy. On the nights where it was clear to see, it was interesting to observe the different constellations in the sky. It was interesting to navigate through the Mircoobservatory too. In class, we discussed that astronomy is the only area of science solely based on observation. It was nice to have the opportunity to discover a completely different area of science. Another thing that I found interesting was how much pollution and the warming up of planets is affecting the universe. The observations and the different articles I read while looking up information was interesting to read because it focused so much on the pollution problems there are. Overall, the astronomy blog was a good learning experience and helped me understand a different area of science I was not familiar with. 

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