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Astronomy falls under the study field of celestial objects which includes- galaxies, stars, planets, comets, and cosmic background radiation. It has been used for thousands of years for methodical observations of the night sky although, the invention of the telescope is what modernized them to fit with the new generation. There are two types of astronomers, one who observes and one who explains the observations made. The study of stars and sellers have been a huge part of the universe, we have discovered many things. Star formation happens in a dense region of dust and gas, which is called giant molecular clouds.
When destabilized, cloud fragments can collapse under the force of gravity and form into a protostar. Chemistry plays a huge part in this career as they are always looking at the compositions of the planet and studying them. What is earth now, once was dust particles, light, and energy spinning in circles really fast. Atoms started to group together which caused the formation of other stars and galaxies. While they were combining themselves, other stars stated to form and die. At that time, black holes, comets, and asteroids came to life too.
At first, Earth was just a big, flaming hot ball that took 13.8 billion years to cool down and become adaptable for living things, the name to the greatest thing for mankind was called “The Big Bang Theory.” The order of the planet is set by the power to hold the heat of the sun. That’s why the ice planets are at the end of the chain.
Lately, the hot topic has been the question of if there is life on Mars. They use chemistry to answer their questions such as the Curiosity Rover, ChemCam, in Mars. It explores Mars and studies its environment. They have found some basic building blocks of life-carbon there. They also found some organic components, lake beds, and methane while hunting for their answer. NASA plans on launching the Mars 2020 rover that they have been working on for a long time.
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