Penguin Watch is about watching penguins 24/7 to see how they're in danger, their patterns, what they do when humans are not there and how people can save penguins because right now, their population is going down, a lot. They use cameras called "Foraging Cameras" The cameras shoot at 1 minute intervals in order to capture very short behavioral events. They are doing this to save the penguins, some of the ecosystem and even humans. They have been doing this project for over 10 years and have gotten a lot of data. There have been these cameras set up in Argentina, New Zealand, Australia, Antarctica and more places.

 

I think everyone would benefit from this, especially people who care about animals, the earth, extension, ecosystems etc. It's important to learn what penguins (and other animals) do when humans are not around so we could potentially save them from danger and even extension. It's also very interesting to see what they do when you're not watching.

 

One question I have is do they use these cameras to observe other animals or other things?

 

Project Noah is a global citizen science platform to discover, share and identify wildlife. In project Noah people are able to join and share their discovering through pictures of plant/animals or nature in general. Usually when someone finds a insect they give the location of where is was found, measurements of the creature and a detailed description of it. This information would be useful to people who enjoy learning about nature.

Astronomers watched a mysterious dark vortex on Neptune go away from a likely near death situation. This storm was wider than the Atlantic ocean and was found by Hubble in September, 2018, in the Northern Hemisphere. This dark vortex scientists found is important because "this smaller dark fragment is potentially part of the dark spot’s disruption process." Basically scientists have seen dark spots like these vanish but they have never seen them disrupt. 

I learned about when climate change started happening. Scientists generally regard the later part of the 19th century as the point at which human activity started influencing the climate. But the new study brings that date forward to the 1830s. I'm still wondering who figured out about climate change.

Homo erectus was like homo sapiens and they were the first to migrate out of Africa. Homo sapiens interbred with other hominids as they spread across the areas they lived.

I think racist people would benefit from this information because it shows that we are all the same species and the only difference in race is climate and that we are all homo sapiens, not other hominids.

 

Quasars are the brightest object in the universe outshining billions of stars, Black holes sit in the center of these objects, they power the Quasars to make them have a voraciously powerful appetite. Quasars abrupt Nasa's learning of other galaxies that are in the universe because of the powerful light they produce that does not reveal the galaxies. If the quasars did not exist, this would allow scientists to increase their knowledge about the outside universe, because some of these galaxies are out of the universe’s wavelength. This learning would benefit me by improving the way I think of galaxies and increasing my knowledge about things I did not know about. 

Question: How big can a black hole get, and when if it is in maximum size, how much more powerful would quasars be? And what would happen if the black holes did not power the quasars, would they be stranded without power, would this allow scientists to discover more galaxies?

 

I learned that human noise and light pollution is altering the bird reproduction and the bird population is going down.

I think people who want to try and stop climate change and help the enviroment around us would benefit from this.

I wonder what other animal are being affected by our man-made pollution.

I learned that however good northern lights can look they can do a lot of damage to the electricity on earth and even the satellites in space. The color of aurora's depend on the molecules that they hit in the atmosphere. The plasma that the aurora creates can actually influence the path of satellites. That means that when the sun is in solar maximum, meaning the solar winds are at the peak of the solar winds, it can do lots and lots of damage to those satellites and that when people rely more and more on satellites and radio communication that can be catastrophic. Scientists need to be able to predict when these will happen and how much damage it could do. I think the scientists who could benefit from this would be people who are needing to launch satellites because if they do it at the wrong time, it could send the satellite off course to go and hit another one or go out of orbit. One question I still have is how many different colors of northern lights can there be?