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Venus Facts - NASA

Physical characteristics/information about Venus. This article helped me find the physical characteristics of Venus that I mentioned in my poem including temperature, shape, size, color, volcanoes, etc. This is the primary source I used to research the specific traits of Venus which I used metaphorically and as imagery in my poem.

https://science.nasa.gov/venus/venus-facts/#:~:text=It%27s%20the%20hottest%20planet%20in%20our%20solar%20system%2C,slowly%20in%20the%20opposite%20direction%20from%20most%20planets.

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Venus is the second planet from the Sun, and Earth’s closest planetary neighbor. It’s the hottest planet in our solar system.

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Time-Lapse Of The Outer Solar System Planets Spinning View From The Hubble Telescope - Microsoft News

The movement of the planets in time lapse, helped with shaping "Venus off her Axis." This video helped me to format and shape my poem as if Venus was spinning the opposite way that it does, which is the same way as all the other planets, like the ones shown in the video. Considering part of the poem was about Venus being thrown off course, it only made since to have the shape of the poem represent this and this video directly helped me visual this.

https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/relatedvideo?&q=planet+spinning+time+lapse&&mid=EECF53885DA84B4AD8E0EECF53885DA84B4AD8E0&&mcid=9091ACEED8034235920AEAABD43DCE31&FORM=VRDGAR

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Venus: The Planet of Love, Beauty and Desire

TOI Astrology

Nicknames, cultural beliefs about Venus, astrology. This article strongly influenced "Venus Off Her Axis," since the main point of the poem is talking about Venus as the goddess of love and beauty but using the planet Venus as her physical representation. This allowed me enough history and background information of Venus as a goddess to provide this information in my poem.

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/astrology/planets-transits/venus-the-planet-of-love-beauty-and-desire/articleshow/113593822.cms

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Venus: The Planet of Love, Beauty, and Desire - Times of India

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Planets & Transits News: Venus is known as Earth’s twin and is the second planet from the Sun. It is also the hottest planet due to its thick atmosphere. In astrology, Venus g

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Jupiter Has No Surface. Here's How That's Actually Possible

Benjamin Roulston

Physical effects of Jupiter, why it could not be livable. This article helped me determine if Jupiter was truly unlivable, giving me context for my poem "Maybe Jupiter got Stupider too," allowing me to write reasons why Jupiter was not livable and play with the idea that it wasn't metaphorically.

https://www.sciencealert.com/jupiter-has-no-surface-heres-how-thats-actually-possible

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Jupiter Has No Surface. Here’s How That’s Actually Possible.

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The planet Jupiter has no solid ground – no surface, like the grass or dirt you tread here on Earth.

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Jupiter and His Conquest - Omeka S

Renaissance depiction of Jupiter as a human, Greek mythology also. This article helped me to pull the connection between Zeus and Jupiter, allowing me to make references to Hera. This also caused me to see Jupiter as a angry man, intentionally from the article or not, causing me to write about him from a angrier perspective. This allowed more cultural context in this poem and helped me to connect Jupiter to one of the themes I wanted to cover: Domestic Violence/Abuse in a relationship.

https://ac.nau.edu/omeka-s/s/love-how-the-gods-could-be-human/page/jupiter-and-his-lovers

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How Things Fly - National Air and Space Museum

Question prompt from specialist, why cant we live on jupiter?

This Q&A section helped to support a previous article about Jupiter's conditions being unlivable. This helped me to craft my poem in a way that shows even though Jupiter may feel like it should be livable it is very dangerous. It also clarified that Jupiter is a gas giant, which is one of the main reasons it could not be a star, allowing me to write specific lines in my poem knowing this.

https://howthingsfly.si.edu/ask-an-explainer/why-cant-we-live-jupiter

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Why can't we live on Jupiter?

Jupiter is a gas giant, which means it probably does not have a solid surface, and the gas it is made up of would be toxic for us. It is also very far from the sun (sunlight can take over an hour to get there) which means that is it very cold. Finally, the mass of Jupiter means that its gravitational pull would be astronomical. You can find out here how much YOU would weigh on Jupiter!

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Jupiter is a gas giant, which means it probably does not have a solid surface, and the gas it is made up of would be toxic for us. It is also very far from the sun (sunlight can take over an hour to get there) which means that is it very cold.

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NASA - Winds in Jupiter's Little Red Spot Almost Twice as Fast as Strongest Hurricane

Storms on Jupiter, red spot, characteristics of Jupiter as a whole. This article helped me to draw the characteristics of Jupiter as a whole, it also taught me about Jupiter's "red spot," and provided storm wind speeds which I used in my poem about Jupiter. This article helped me to find the physical traits that I used in my poem in order to physically describe Jupiter throughout the metaphor.

https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/nasa-winds-in-jupiters-little-red-spot-almost-twice-as-fast-as-strongest-hurricane/

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NASA - Winds in Jupiter’s Little Red Spot Almost Twice as Fast as Strongest Hurricane - NASA Science

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A Category Five hurricane, the strongest class on Earth, has winds raging at more than 155 miles per hour, and they usually max out around 200 miles per hour.

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Jupiter Is Bigger Than Some Stars, So Why Didn't We Get a Second Sun? - Michelle Starr

Should Jupiter have been a star? Why couldn't it be? 2.5 size statistic, failed stars, characteristics of Jupiter. The statistic about Jupiter being 2.5 times bigger than other planets was the jumping off point for my poem. Combined with background information about Zeus and Jupiter, as well as Jupiter being angry, I was able to use this size statistic to connect Jupiter back to the selected theme. I also got more information about why Jupiter was not a star allowing me to reference correctly the line that Jupiter hated not being enough to be a star, making it factual and metaphorical.

https://www.sciencealert.com/why-isn-t-jupiter-a-star

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Jupiter Is Bigger Than Some Stars, So Why Didn’t We Get a Second Sun?

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The smallest known main-sequence star in the Milky Way galaxy is a real pixie of a thing.

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Phases of the moon

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We have a slightly different view of the Moon each night. We describe how the Moon looks with the eight Moon phases, or shapes:

🌑 New

🌒 Waxing Crescent

🌓 First Quarter

🌔 Waxing Gibbous

🌕 Full

🌖 Waning Gibbous

🌗 Third Quarter

🌘 Waning Crescent

If you have looked into the night sky, you may have noticed the Moon appears to change shape each night. Some nights, the Moon might look like a narrow crescent. Other nights, the Moon might look like a bright circle. And on other nights, you might not be able to see the Moon at all. The different shapes of the Moon that we see at different times of the month are called the Moon's phases.

Why does this happen? The shape of the Moon isn't changing throughout the month. However, our view of the Moon does change.

The Moon does not produce its own light. There is only one source of light in our solar system, and that is the Sun. Without the Sun, our Moon would be completely dark. What you may have heard referred to as "moonlight" is actually just sunlight reflecting off of the Moon's surface.

The Sun's light comes from one direction, and it always illuminates, or lights up, one half of the Moon - the side of the Moon that is facing the Sun. The other side of the Moon is dark.

On Earth, our view of the illuminated part of the Moon changes each night, depending on where the Moon is in its orbit, or path, around Earth. When we have a full view of the completely illuminated side of the Moon, that phase is known as a full moon.

But following the night of each full moon, as the Moon orbits around Earth, we start to see less of the Moon lit by the Sun. Eventually, the Moon reaches a point in its orbit when we don't see any of the Moon illuminated. At that point, the far side of the Moon is facing the Sun. This phase is called a new moon. During the new moon, the side facing Earth is dark.

The eight Moon phases:

🌑 New: We cannot see the Moon when it is a new moon.

🌒 Waxing Crescent: In the Northern Hemisphere, we see the waxing crescent phase as a thin crescent of light on the right.

🌓 First Quarter: We see the first quarter phase as a half moon.

🌔 Waxing Gibbous: The waxing gibbous phase is between a half moon and full moon. Waxing means it is getting bigger.

🌕 Full: We can see the Moon completely illuminated during full moons.

🌖 Waning Gibbous: The waning gibbous phase is between a full moon and a half moon. Waning means it is getting smaller.

🌗 Third Quarter: We see the third quarter moon as a half moon, too. It is the opposite half as illuminated in the first quarter moon.

🌘 Waning Crescent: In the Northern Hemisphere, we see the waning crescent phase as a thin crescent of light on the left.

The Moon displays these eight phases one after the other as it moves through its cycle each month. It takes about 27.3 days for the Moon to orbit Earth. However, because of how sunlight hits the Moon, it takes about 29.5 days to go from one new moon to the next new moon.

Here's what the Moon looks like right now from Earth:

Interested in learning more about the Moon?

Related Resources for Educators

Daily Moon Guide
Moon Phases Simulation Viewed from Earth and Space
Our World: Moon Phases
Make a Moon Phase Calendar and Calculator