*looks at Mithos and smiles*

"I've been around, you know, meeting new people. Yeah know. Anyways, hows it been, I hope it begins soon. I've been good if you wanted to know.

*turns to my note book and begins to doddle with my quill*

Francis smiles as she takes her seat quietly. She smiles at the Professor, happy to be back.

"I wonder what we will be doing first" she said to Mithos

*Alicia looks over at the girl who just came in saw from the smile that she too was glad to be back. alicia leans over to her whispers "I love astronomy dont you? Its nice to study something thats so...well not earth bound. Ya know what i mean? Studying the heavens"

*alicia starts humming quietly to herself as she gazes out the windows at the endless starry sky noticing that the stars always seemed brighter in the winter*

Welcome!
 

Shannon raises her hand. "Astronomy is the study of celestial bodies and the universe as a whole."

Francis raises her hand, "Astronomy is the scientific study of matter in outer space, especially the positions, dimensions, distribution, motion, composition, energy, and evolution of celestial bodies and phenomena."

She also grabs a lollie and places it near her quill. She wants to eat it later on the class.

Serena grabbed a strawberry lolly and then sat back down.
She raised her hand and added,
"Astronomy is a system of knowledge or beliefs about celestial phenomena and their are various astronomies described by ancient civilizations.
The Bible is actually one source. The constellations are distinguished and named like the morning star, the seven stars, Pleiades, Orion, Arcturus, the Great Bear, the crooked serpent, Draco, the Dioscuri, or Gemini, Castor and Pollux. Stars are also referred to as "the host of heaven".
Divisions of time were based on the observation of the movements of the heavenly bodies and led to dividing years into months. The zodiac, named by the Greeks, came from the mapping out of the stars appearances divided into twelve portions.
Astronomical observations were necessary in history to set, or keep the right time for sacred ceremonies."

Lesley walks in the class room and take a seat by the glass wall and takes her books out hoping that she is not late.

*grabs a lolly and raises her hand* Astronomy is the scientific study of matter in outer space, especially the positions, dimensions, distribution, motion, composition, energy, and evolution of celestial bodies and phenomena.

Jacallia walks in and quickly takes a seat. She hates being new, she can't find anything. She hopes she is not too late though.

Rosa sits down and waves her hand up in the air. then she says: 'it comes from the greec words astros, star, and logos, word. I think it's giving stars names and stuff and studying their movements. people on sea navigate using the stars.' she wonders if she made a complete fool of herself or only a half one and quickly opens her astrology book and hides behind it.

::Erica supressed a scream and, with as much composure as she could muster, stood up and grabbed a lolly. She then made her way back to her seat. She pulled out some parchment and a quill, unwrapped her lolly and stuck it in her mouth. Mmmmmm.....pure bliss. She was liking Astronomy already.::

Nadia helped herself with some lollypop and it was having it stuffed in her mouth that stopped her from responding earlier.

"It is the study of the celestial bodies and everything from the earth out =P It includes the study of the planets, from the interior and exterior both, and the composition of space with as much knowledge as we can get. It is finding explanations and describing the outherspace. Astro means star, -nomy (from L. -nomi) is for refering to 'theory'. English astronomie, from Old French, from Latin astronomia, from Greek astronomi."

Nadia heard wizcat and adds, "I beg to differ. You see, Astro+logos would make Astrology, not Astronomy. Those are quite differnt. Though by the sound of it the first name dos applies in this case, logos does means 'word' and 'thought' and 'expression'. Complicate word, isn't it?" She shook her head. "Sorry, drifted away."

*quickly takes a seat and pulls out parchment and quill ready to take down anything of use*

*raises hand* Astronomy is the scientific study of celestial bodies, phenomena and all realms of outer space

*Alicia also helps herself to a lolliepop and whispers to Nadia "good answer!" then raises her hand and says "Astronomy is the study of the universe and the objects in it. Astronomers use telescopes that gatherinvisible light and invisible forms of energy to veiw the sky. they investigatenearby bodies such as the sun, planets, comets,as well as far off galaxies. They aslo study the structure of spaceand past and future of the universe"

Mithos raises his hand *clears throat*

"Astronomy.. the brach of physics that studies celestial bodies and the universe as a whole. It is also defined as star-gazing. In Astronomy there are included astrochemics, astrograpohy, astrolithology, astrology, astrometry, astrophysics, slenology and uranology."