SPOILER!!: sweetpinkpixie;11542988
"I did very much, Miss Edwards. You captured the essence of one of my favorite suits perfectly," he beamed at the Gryffindor. "I appreciate you taking time out of your busy schedule."
"If all the chit chatting could please stop now, let us begin," he announced while he hobbled along. Hobble hobble hobble. "Today is going to be a bit more of a hands on lesson, hence why I am holding it in the Astrophysics Laboratory instead of the classroom. Please do not touch any of the material in front of you before I have instructed you to do so."
Finally back in front of the blackboard Airey leaned half of his body weight against it and then looked at the blurry shapes that he knew to be students despite his poor eyesight. Should have brought his glasses. Oh well.
“In your homework you were asked how long it took for the first stars to form after the Big Bang and your answers varied quite a bit from 400 million years to 200 million years to 155 million years to 30 million years,” he explained as he hobbled around and used his cane to support most of his body weight. “The truth of the matter is that the technology of today still limits us as humans in being able to both see and simulate these conditions. However, research at the National Space Centre in 2079 by muggle astronomer Royston Moore and his team indicates that perhaps the first stars formed as early as 27 billion years after the Big Bang.”
OOC: studies relevant to us in 2014 lean towards the 30 million years. By the time our characters are studying this some 70 years later it is safe to assume that technology has advanced quite a bit and that there will be a more definite answer so pleeeeeeeease don’t take this answer as 100% real fact OOC. It is purely IC and just for us here on SS in good ol’ 2083!
He paused for a moment to let all of this sink in before continuing. “Eventually, an estimated 4.6 billion years ago, a very special star was formed. One that holds 99.8 percent of our solar system's mass, is the gravitational epicenter, and without it life would be impossible. The Sun.” This was mostly review for those taking their OWLs and NEWTs, so the astronomer did not linger on this for too long. “We know today, with special thanks to Copernicus, that we live in a heliocentric universe, but ancient people did not know this and believed that everything revolved around the Earth. These ancient people would look up at the night sky and eventually noticed 7 ‘wandering stars’. Can anyone guess me what these 7 wandering stars are?”
OOC: CLASS HAS OFFICIALLY STARTED!
Have your character raise their hand and answer Professor Flamsteed's question or just take a stab at it. Creative and not correct answers still receive just as much participation credit as correct ones <3
Had she said something wrong? Maybe her lack of time came across as that she felt the card the waste of time and she was too busy to make a card for the professor. That was not intended. "
there is always time to cheer up one of my favourite professors" They were in limited supply these days, maybe Sarah's standards when it came to teachers was too high.
The seven wondering stars.... wondering made her think of what she did when she was not on medicine... she would pace....
Seven... she liked that number. She had seven brothers and all.
Oh wait, back to the question.. what had the number seven.. in the star.. ancient times... Planets maybe? Obviously they were not able to see all the planets in those days, not even all our Solar System. Sarah raised her hand
"Perhaps our planets? They wonder around... and they can look like stars to people who cannot tell the difference"