This Month in the Sky: Look for planets

5 planets visible 80 minutes before sunrise

during end of January

Click on the image to see the whole of it

 

 

https://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/Yoursky

COOL SCIENTIST: Albert Einstein

Einstein at age 14, 

posing with his sister 

and best friend, Maja

Dr. Albert Einstein was a scientist whose most well-known achievement is the “theory of relativity,” a groundbreaking notion of his that challenged long-standing scientific assumptions and laid the foundation for much of modern physics theory. The theory included his famous equation e=mc². 

 

At the blackboard, teaching

Photo by Alan W. Richards, AIP

Born in 1879 in Germany, his life as a scientist was greatly influenced by his childhood experiences of playing with his little sister, Maja, learning to play the violin and piano, solving math puzzles, questioning rules, wondering about the nature of time and space, and using his imagination to explore how invisible forces—such as those that move the needle of a compass to point North—might work. 

Being silly on his 72nd birthday

Photo by Arthur Sasse, UPI

After college, where he studied math and physics, he continued to imagine and to ask questions about time and space and invisible forces, researching and writing many articles about his ideas, using math to represent his ideas as equations, and proposing his famous theory of relativity. By 1920 Einstein was internationally renowned. He won a Nobel Prize in 1921.

In 1933 Einstein came to the United States as a refugee where he remained for the rest of his life. He died in 1955.