Constellations, Stars & Planets

Thea De GuzmanMs Mary Ann McGonigle

Honors English 10 4 8 June 2011

Glass Castle• On Christmas Eve, Jeannette was only

five years old when her father Rex told her to pick out a star for Christmas.– Lori and Brian chose Betelgeuse and Rigel– Jeannette chose the planet Venus

• Rex explained how the stars rotated through the night as the Earth was turning– Teaching them how to identify the

constellationsm, the lightyears, quasars and blackholes

– How to find the Northstar

North Star

• Also known as the Polestar or Polaris• Finding the North Star– First find the Big Dipper and the little dipper, both group of

stars are easily to find – Second, when you find the little dipper, the point of its

handle is known as the Northstar • When you find the Northstar, it can point you to where

ever you want to go because you found the North– The northern axis of the Earth points directly toward the

North star

Constellations• Constellations aren’t real, they are only used to help us identify

the stars• Farmers are those who made the constellations

– It helped them realize which stars appear in a certain month and season

– Helping them which season it is when the stars appear• For example: Scorpius only appears during the summer in the northern

hemisphere

• By finding one constellation, a person can identify its stars and their neighboring stars– For example: Orion constellation has the stars of Betelgeuse and Rigel.

• Betelgeuse is the shoulder• Rigel is the foot

Betelgeuse • Rex told the kids that it was hundred times bigger than the

sun– Fact is Betelgeuse is 650 times the diameter of the sun– 20 times the mass of the sun

• Known as Betelguex, Betelgeuze, Beteiguex or Al Mankib– Betelgeuse in Arabic means “the armpit of the central

one” or “the shoulder”• It is a red star on the constellation of Orion known as the

Northern Winter– It is one of the larger stars seen, shinning at visual

magnitude 7.0 – Supernova: betelgeuse is so bright than others believe that

it can be a second sun • But nine other stars are brighter even Rigel

Rigel• Known as the blue white giant star, Algebar, Elgebar or

Beta Orionis– In Arabic, it means “the left leg of the central one”– Rex called it the blue star, brighter than Betelgeuse– Located in the foot of Orion• Jeanette said it was perfect for Brian because he was

great runner• Drawing a line upward will reach Betelgeuse

• Comparing to the other stars, Rigel is 40,000 times brighter– It is the 7th brightest star– 60 times the diameter of the sun– Has the same amount of mass as Betelgeuse comparing

to the sun: 20 times the mass of the sun

Venus• Rex told Jeannette that Venus didn’t

have any moons , magnetic field or satellites and that it was super hot.

• It is known for goddess of love and beauty

• Venus is the brightest of all the plants– It has volcanoes and full heat that it

could even melt lead– That is why Jeanette Walls chose Venus

because it was the brightest of all the stars

• It has the same size and shape of the Earth

Horoscopes• Horoscopes are based on what constellation the sun is in

– That is how the zodiac signs come along by figuring out where the sun was in a constellation on the day of birth

• The sun revolves around the Earth, moving across the celestial sphere where Astrologers and astronomers can use to measure and determine the constellation of the sun’s position

• Horoscopes can give several information about a person’s life– What their role in the planet– Dating life– Business…etc

• Zodiac signs are based on the type of energy – The position of the planets– Rising sign

•

Zodiac Signs

Work Cited

• Hamilton, Calvin J. “Venus Introduction.” solarviews. Solar system copyright, 2009. Web. 7 June 2011. <http://www.solarviews.com/ eng/ venus.htm>.

• Smith, Richard Dibon. “the Constellations.” dibonsmith. constellationweb, 20 Nov. 2010. Web. 7 June 2011. <http://www.dibonsmith.com/ menu.htm>.

• Walls, Jeannette. Glass Castle. New York: Division of Simon & Schuster, 2005. N. pag. books. Web. 7 June 2011. <http://books.google.com/ books?id=auZXJuwLw8QC&pg=PA39&lpg=PA39&dq=constellations+in+glass+castle&source=bl&ots=iQVcsLKyNX&sig=9aNtcCRERA1b6MxvSFaGoYvsQE0&hl=en&ei=u5DuTZvwG8jb0QG52YHeAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBkQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false >.