On
celebration of the annual World Space Week, BS Astronomy students together with
RTU-Astronomy Society host exhibits and lectures tackling astronomy and space.
Held at the Astronomy Center, October 6.
Event
started off with a public solar observation to allow students and staff alike
to get a glimpse of our very own star, the Sun. It didn’t start off that well due
to the weather condition. After waiting
for an hour or so, the clouds parted for the Sun allowing us to view it in all
its blazing glory.
Next
was a lecture led by a graduate of BS Astronomy and is now a part-time
professor in RTU, Mr. Jerome Felicidario. He talked about about junk,
specifically Space Junk and its consequences. If you have watched the movie,
Wall-E, notice how Earth is surrounded by a graveyard of satellites? Those are
called space junk and we have thousands of de-commissioned satellites orbiting
our planet at this moment.
Moreover,
Astronomy students prepared exhibits—ranging from a scaled model of the solar
system as well as a model of the International Space Station. There are
exhibits as well that makes use of simple physics and maybe a little
light-bending; this includes dancing lights, thermodynamic floating cups and
glowing cups.
Also,
the Manila Planetarium situated a mobile planetarium at Astronomy
room two, students was able to see the beauty of the night sky without actually
going out.
-Compañero,
Hans Carlo J.
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