User:Mu301/Learning blog/2007-01

January 2007



 * It has been a while since I posted here. I've been busy making telescope observations for the supernova page (which is still under development.)  I also added a supernova related activity section to observational astronomy and created a new page on extrasolar planets.  These two pages are now a featured learning resource at Portal:Physical Sciences.--mikeu 18:20, 27 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Take a look at the image at right. The bright star near the center goes by the rather unimaginative name of HD 209458.  There is something about this star that is quite remarkable.  You can't tell by looking at the image, but this star is home to a planet {which  goes by the even less imaginative name of HD 209458 b.)  It is one of more than 200 planets that have been discovered outside of our solar system.  These distant planetary systems are the subject of one of the observational astronomy subpages that I recently started.  The first activity encourages someone interested in learning about this topic to participate in the systemic research collaboration and join a learning group here.  Learning projects like this bring up an interesting question about the role of research here at Wikiversity.  Since many of the projects that I'm working on or planning involve some kind of research I'll need to address this question.  In the next few days I'll start by writing up some more detailed descriptions of the projects that I have in mind.--mikeu 20:30, 27 January 2007 (UTC)