Week 9 - Space + Art

This week's lectures on space and art were extremely interesting.  The video explaining the powers of ten really puts the size of objects and distance in space into perspective. It is also interesting to see how much more gets added into the picture of space every 10x. The differences between zooming out light-years really gives you some idea about the sheer size of the universe. 


When I think of space and the stars I always think about how in the past, before light pollution, people were able to see so many more stars in the sky. I recently was in the desert and finally got to see with my own eyes how many more stars were visible to the eye when in an area without light pollution. One of my biggest dreams in life is to also go see the northern lights where I am able to see the stars fully with the lights contrasting them in the background. 




This week's lecture also really brought back my memories of AP US History from high school. The videos showing the space race between the US and the Soviet Union were really interesting to watch because it gave me more information than I already knew about a topic that interested me.  It's also fascinating to see how the public reacted to the space race and more specifically something like sputnik. This really ignited a flame in the United States where we started to really put a more concentrated effort into developing our own space program to the advanced level it is as today. 



Works Cited:

EamesOffice. (2010, August 26). Powers of ten™ (1977). YouTube. Retrieved May 30, 2022, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKBhvDjuy0&ab_channel=EamesOffice

Elizabeth Rhodes By Elizabeth Rhodes September 11, 2020. (n.d.). 10 darkest places in the U.S. for incredible stargazing. Travel + Leisure. Retrieved May 30, 2022, from https://www.travelandleisure.com/trip-ideas/space-astronomy/darkest-places-in-the-us

Light pollution. International Dark-Sky Association. (2017, February 14). Retrieved May 30, 2022, from https://www.darksky.org/light-pollution/

MUJTABA Follow Design Engineer. (n.d.). Power of ten. SlideShare a Scribd company. Retrieved May 30, 2022, from https://www.slideshare.net/mujtaba900/power-of-ten-27647964

NASA. (n.d.). Sputnik and the Dawn of the Space Age. NASA. Retrieved May 30, 2022, from https://history.nasa.gov/sputnik.html

Oct 4, 1957 CE: USSR launches Sputnik. National Geographic Society. (n.d.). Retrieved May 30, 2022, from https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/ussr-launches-sputnik

Vesna, V. (2022, May). Week 9 - Space + Art. Lecture.

Wikimedia Foundation. (2022, May 23). Sputnik 1. Wikipedia. Retrieved May 30, 2022, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sputnik_1 (Image)


Comments

  1. Malia AllenJune 3, 2022 at 1:19 PM

    Hi Shyam,
    I loved reading your blog! I think how you brought pollution into this blog was amazing. I remember one time I took a trip up to the mountains and I remember being mesmerized by the night sky with all of the stars. I was then I realized how much pollution takes over our skies. I hope you get to go see the northern lights soon!

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