Our Solar System - Weekly Blog #20

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Summary 

This week in science, I learned about our solar system. I learned alot about galaxies, stars, and other objects of the solar system. We live a galaxy called the "Milky Way" that is called an spiral galaxy. The different types of galaxies are elliptical, spiral, and irregular galaxies. Each of these galaxies are unique are in their own ways, and each have distinct features that keep them different in this way. In order for a star to form, they have to go through a process called nuclear fusion. In this process, Hydrogen is ionized (electrons stripped from the protons) into subatomic particles and then put under immense heat and pressure. After this they are fused together into helium because of this process.

S&EP - Analyzing Data

I recognized patterns in data and see relationships between variables. For example, I observed that the father away from the sun, the greater the planet's period of revolution. This is just one of the many observations I concluded from analyzing the data that was given to us through the formatives. Some other things that I noticed when researching information surrounding the topic was that some of the closer planets to the sun tend to have rock surfaces and are warmer. They have more earth like feature just taking off of this factor alone, distance from the sun. Another thing that is affected by her closeness to the sun is the planets gravity, in which those closer to the sun experience similar gravity to earth.

XCC - Patterns 

As shown above, there seemed, to me at least, that there is some sort of pattern that was connected a planet's distance from the sun and similarities to earth. All planets that tended to be closer in general to the sun have rocky surfaces, gravity like that which earth has, similar day/year lengths, and other distinguishable features that we would find here on earth. I also found that there are patterns in how each galaxy is shaped and they all fall under the previously mentioned galaxy type category. Depending on how prevalent these patterns are, we can collect information from it and learn more about our solar system, and even others, from it.