The one thing I love about December is the one thing that is difficult to deal with….cold weather! This month means an awful lot to me because not only is my birthday in December, so is my anniversary with my girlfriend and of course Christmas time! This December was also different in other ways because [...]

Happy halloween fellow bloggers! Oh my what a month! I knew this month was going to be terrible, but how terrible I just never knew! This monthwas important personal wise and also university wise because it bought to end the three courses I have been studying (s189, s194 and y162) which I am happy about. [...]

Moving on from radiation this second chapter talks about the wonderful Sun! The chapter starts off by explaining that the sun is a major star in explains the active regions of the sun. Let’s start off with a few interesting facts about the visible regions of the sun? The diameter is 1.4 kilometres The Sun [...]

Yet carrying on with the radiation theme, but with its use to astronomers to study ‘dark matter’. Dark matter doesn’t radiated at all, but the visible light that is viewed can be interesting be a way studied to find out about dark matter. The  spectrum includes all types of radiation which are listed below: Gamma [...]

So The Open University has a cool 10 pointer Astonomy course, how cool is this? Just like ‘Understanding the weather’ this course starts the same and ends the same time so it will be different studying courses together, hense why I am so organised! These courses are designed to be studied over a 100 hours [...]