Uranus: The Seventh Planet In The Solar System

The first piece of artwork Mars and Venus United by Love illiterates Cupid binding Mars (the god of war) to Venus with a love knot. Visually opulent and sensual, the picture also operates as an allegory and celebrates the civilizing and nurturing effects of love (milk flows from Venus's breast and Mars's horse is restrained). The picture represents the triumph of love over war. The artist's paintings of historical, mythological and religious subjects as well as the everyday life of the Venetian nobility feature foreshortened massive figures in unconventional poses, a characteristic reminiscent of Michelangelo during the same period. This Venus is an excellent example of the sensual-spiritual nudes he painted that appealed to secular as well

The setting of The Son of Neptune is in present time. Details that indicated that the Son of Neptune is in present time were the use of cars and phones and the implied use of televisions, computers, iPods and the Internet. This shows that the story takes place in present time because cars, phones, television, computers, iPods and the Internet are commonly household items used today. Thus, present time is the time period of The Son of Neptune.. There are several locations due to the main characters constantly traveling from place to place to complete their quest’s objective. The various locations in the story are Camp Jupiter in San Francisco, California, Iris’s health and nutrition store in Mendocino, California, Phineus food

Saturn is the second largest planet and sixth number planet of our solar system. Saturn is a gas giant made up of hydrogen and helium. It is big enough to hold more than 760 Earths within it, and is second massive planet after Jupiter, roughly 95 times Earth 's mass. However, Saturn has the lowest density among all the planets of solar system .It spins faster than any other planet except Jupiter which help Saturn with its magnetic field which is about 578 times more powerful than Earth 's. Although Saturn has at least 62 moons but its largest moon, Titan, is slightly bigger than Mercury, and is the second-largest moon in the solar system after Jupiter 's moon Ganymede (our moon is fifth largest).Although it is the most interesting planet

I researched about William Herschel, who was a conductor, organist, composer and music teacher. William Herschel knew the stars well and was always curious as to what was beyond the Earth. He had built himself a homemade telescope and enjoyed viewing the stars from it. As he was observing the stars one night he noticed an object that he could not clarify what it was. Other astronomers had seen this object, but never really observed how different it was. William Herschel was the first to notice this odd object and was curious to find out more. This odd object, Uranus, was the first planet in recorded history to be discovered. The discovery of Uranus was just the beginning of William Herschel’s discoveries. He left his work with music and became

The discovery of Uranus was a pretty big achievement for the astronomical world. It showed many that there was the possibility of many other planets existing in our solar system past Saturn. There wasn’t really that much thought put into identifying other planets past Saturn since almost everyone did not think that there would be planets out there. This all changed after William Herschel’s discovery in 1781. While it does mark an important achievement for the astronomical world, I do not think that he was really intending on finding a new planet, since it was generally accepted that there were not more for the past 2,000 years. There were many questions asked, such as is it large enough, is it circular, what is its orbit, and other things.

Uranus, the first god of the sky and lord of the universe. We was born from the Chaos and Gaea. Chaos was pretty much nothing and Gaea was the goddess of the Earth pretty much mother nature. Uranus had 18 children 12 titans, 3 cyclopes, and 3 heratoncheires. His children were Cronus, Rhea, Hyperion, Mnemosyne, Themis, Coeus, Phoebe, Prometheus, Epimetheus, Metis, Oceanus, and Tethys. He didn 't like the cyclopes and heratoncheries so he locked them up in the middle of the earth which gave Gaea pain. So Gaea told her son to rebel a against him to stop him from her pain. Gaea was infuriated and created a diamond sickle, which she gave to Cronus, one of the Titans. Cronus found his father and castrated him in while he was asleep, from the blood that fell onto the earth, the Erinnyes, the Giants and the Meliads were made, while his sperm fell into sea, Aphrodite was created from the

I chose “Astronomy: Discovery of Uranus by William Herschel in 1781” as the topic for my research. I found that William Herschel was many things, including a musician, composer, teacher, and astronomer. William also built his own telescopes to look into the night sky. During one of his searches, he found something odd; it wasn’t a nebulous star or comet, but something different. It turned out to be a planet which he named “Georgium Sidus” or Georges star in honor of George III. The motivation for the discovery was his love of the heavens. He and his sister had found many objects in the night sky including several comets. I am positive that Herschel had relied on the work of others but the articles didn’t specify. The reason I am positive

William Herschel found Uranus on March 13, 1781. This was a big deal to him and his career. As stated in a document I found “Uranus was important for Herschel because its discovery was a passport to royal patronage, a pension of 200 pounds per annum, and a substantial support for his investigations of the construction of the sidereal heavens”. Herschel used a telescope which no one found would really work and the thought of one working was unimaginable. Some small ones were in use by scientist but Herschel wanted to develop a more powerful one that everyone would know would work better.

William Herschel was born to a family of musicians in 1738. As such, he was a musician, but that wasn't where his interests laid. He was interested in astronomy and would spend his nights looking at the heavens. He soon realized that his telescopes were horrible and started making his own. His telescopes became the best in the world and allowed him to see much farther. While the goal of most astronomers was to chart the positions of planets and stars in the sky using mathematics, Herschel, however, was interested in the evolution of stars, and not their positions.

Pluto was once considered one of the nine major planets in our solar system until 2006. The reason for this was in 2003, when an astronomer found another object in close proximity to Pluto that appeared to be larger. Based on Pluto’s size and location it was stripped of its status and was then classified as a dwarf planet.

Before the discovery of Uranus by William Herschel the world knew about the five existing planets that were able to be observed by the naked eye. These planets are Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. The earth was not considered in these planets because earth was previously thought to be the center of the universe where all celestial bodies revolved around it.

Pluto has been a planet since 1930. It once was in our solar system but in 2006 they decided that it wasn’t a planet anymore because it didn’t mean all the expectations. According to Discovery Education, a chihuahua is still a dog. This evidence works for Pluto because it is a very small planet but it is still a planet. Also, Jupiter is very big but it is still a planet. One of the reasons Pluto isn’t a planet is because of its size. If Pluto isn’t a planet then Jupiter shouldn’t be a planet. This proves that planets shouldn’t be based on a size. Based on my logic, Pluto orbits the sun. If it wasn’t a planet it wouldn’t orbit the sun because all the other planets orbit the sun and Pluto does. That proves that Pluto should be a planet. According

William Hershal was raised in a family of musicians. As he grew older he studied from a book entitled “Harmonics”, by Robert Smith. After reading it another one of Smith’s book caught his attention, “The Compleat System of Optiks”, an introduction to telescope construction.

I was doing research on how and why Uranus was discovered when it was. William Herschel, a curious man, was a musician by trade, but an avid astronomer. He had the firm belief that there was extraterrestrial life, a popular belief at the time, and searched diligently for it in his spare time. Unfortunately, the telescopes in that time period were rather poor quality, much to Hershel's frustration. So, he decided to make his own telescopes, which became better and better each time he made a new one. One day, as he was observing Saturn, he spotted Uranus, which he believed to be a comet at the time. No one else believed him until the planet got enough for them to barely spot it on their lower quality telescopes. This made Herschel famous and

Known as one of the oldest in the Zodiac constellation, in Greek mythology, Aquarius was originated from the myth about a young boy named Ganymede. It was said that Zeus had taken an interest in young Ganymede and turned himself into an eagle to carry Ganymede to Mount Ide where he tended to Zeus by serving drinks. Then one day, young Ganymede decided not to serve Zeus drinks anymore and in turn poured out his wine and water, which created a flood. But, instead of getting angry, Zeus made Ganymede immortal;