Robea (Rando Badly Explains Astronomy)

Hello everyone! ROBEA here with another quick little update! This week we will be talking about some more Astrophotography! Oh yeah! This is what the cool kids talk about! So pull out a chair, sit your silly self down and lets get down to some learning! Now our bro Orion Nebula is what’s called a “Diffuse Nebula”. Diffuse Nebulae “are large clouds of gas (mainly hydrogen) and interstellar dust that give birth to stars” (Legault 2014). So it's basically a big hydrogen gas cloud that occasionally pops out baby stars. We can get even more specific though because diffuse nebulae have to subcategories, Reflection Nebulae and Emission Nebulae (Legault 2014). A Reflection Nebula is a nebula that is illuminated by nearby stars (Legault 2014). A Emissions Nebula kind of absorbs the light around it and re-emits it in its own image (Legault 2014). Our buddy the Orion Nebula is in the Emission Nebula category. Alright I’ll let you guys go now. I’ll stop holding you all captive! Go! Be free my ...

Hello ladies, gentlemen, and non-binary pals. Your girl ROBEA is back to do some more learning for you guys! This week we will be derailing from Orion Nebula (Sorry bae). But the show must go on! This week we will be talking about the type of camera that can be used to take a picture of the Orion Nebula or any astronomical object (look at that I’m using big girl words go me!). The name of this wonderful camera is CCD or charge coupled device (Nice 2006). Retrieved from: http://industrialcamerasales.com/product/sony-xces30/?v=8f2564d40946 (I know, I know ROBEA where is the cringy picture?? What is this actually showing us a picture of what you are talking about? Well fam squad, I had to show you a real picture of the camera so you know what the heck it looks like.) The most common use of a CCD camera is to take pictures of space since it is a very sensitive camera. The way a CCD camera takes a picture is pretty cool (I mean if you hate astronomy it won’t be cool to you but ...

Hello my favorite padawans! How are you all this fine day (or night, maybe you’re doing some late night reading...that’s right I can see you!). This week we’re gonna take a little break from the whole “how to take a picture of the sky” and do a short update focusing on another aspect of our favorite Nebula, the Orion Nebula. Alright sit yourself down, buckle up, it's time to do you some learning! Now the question we have surprisingly not answered is how the Orion Nebula got its name? (I know I know, I should have answered that in my first real post but I didn't think to?) A few updates ago we learned that the Orion Nebula got its original name (Messier 42) from a crazy man by the name of Charles Messier (Plotner 2015). You may be asking yourself “ROBEA how did the Orion Nebula come to be called Nebula?” (Or you could be asleep and not asking that question so I’m just gonna pretend you did). Unsurprisingly the Orion Nebula got its name because it is a part of the Orion Constella...

An Artists Rendition of the Planet Gliese 581c Retrieved from: http://www.cosmographica.com/spaceart/exoplanet-gliese581c.html Hello to the few people that read this! (How’s the day going Professor?). I hope you all are ready to have some knowledge thrown at you! So pull a chair up, take a seat, and lets get to learning! Now I know I talk a LOT about space but I never really talk about the planet we live on (Don’t get to excited; I see you perking up a bit back there Tom). Let’s not get too carried away here people; I’m not gonna talk about Earth, Nay Nay, I’m gonna talk about planets that are LIKE Earth (No Tom I’m not talking about Aliens! Sit down before you hurt yourself man). So our favorite people over at NASA have spent many years staring at the sky in hopes they will find a planet like our very own Earth. I bet some of you are getting a bit excited but keep your shirts on, NASA has not found any planets that are 100% like Earth. When I say “Like Earth” I mean how like...

http://www.astronomy.com/magazine/weirdest-objects/2015/05/31-neutron-star-psr-j17482246 Hello my lovelies! How is everyone? Having a good day? Well sit your silly selves down it's time to expand the horizons of your mind! (Truly I am the master of metaphors). Let's start this show off with a bang! Not to steal Star Trek’s thunder but “Space, Space is the final frontier” (don’t you fellow Trekkies just get the butterflies when you get hit with that nostalgia??). Now look at me, alright? We don’t know a lot about space. There I said it! Are we honestly surprised? We hardly know anything about what lives in our Oceans; if we don’t even know that much it's not really a surprise that we know next to nothing about space. Now before you die hard space lovers star raging down in the comments (Please put the pitchforks down! I bruise easy!), I will say this there is quite a bit we know about space. But the fact of the matter is young padawans is that Space is so freaking big ...

Hello my fellow Humans (and aliens if you’re out there I guess). This weeks update is gonna be a bit shorter. Ok? We all understand? Great, let's get started! In today’s lesson we are gonna take a glimpse into the world of Astrophotography. Whats Astrophotography I hear you ask? (I mean I should explain it but do I need to? You know what Imma do it anyways). So without using any fancy shmancy terms the super simple, real dumb down version of what Astrophotography is that it is the science of taking pictures of space.  (Do you guys think I should make an art blog? Because call me Picasso but I think I might be the next big thing......Yeah Ok I know, I won't make the world suffer by looking at my images. Let a girl dream!) That's it. It’s all about pointing a camera in the air and taking a picture of space. Now that we got that out of the way we’re gonna focus on our old friend the Orion Nebula. (I am sure you guys are not fed up with hearing about ole Orion. What...

Alright kiddies! Let's get down to business! Last time we learned about what the Orion Nebula is made of (If you did not read it what on Earth are you doing here? How did you get here strange entity?) This time we’re gonna learn about the guy who found our lovely Nebula. The Orion Nebula official NASA approved name is the Messier 42 (I know it's a great name….it really isn’t a good name.)(Plotner 2017). Now the man who found our favorite Nebula was a comet chasing astronomy fanatic by the name of Charles Messier (Plotner 2015). (I know I know, its such a work of art. It brings tears to my eyes!) Messier became completely obsessed with space, comets in particular, when he was just a wee lad. This guy, much like our fav mad hatter, spent his whole life cataloging space objects. Now you might be thinking that this guy is a genius, he’s praised for creating an extensive log of objects in space (Plotner 2015). That must have been his plan right? No, no it wasn’t. Messier l...