Astronomy 2:2

"Welcome back, I'm glad to see you all again," Professor Zumwalt said as her second years began to pile into the room. Today they were going to be looking at one massive neighbor they had in space. "The Sun is a star," she said opening up her lecture for the day. "For millions of years, the Sun has been worshiped as a god, the giver of life and light. Without it, we wouldn't be here to talk about it! It allows plants to grow and along with some other basic elements keeps our planet on track." Adorah said as the students began to take notes already. "Now, I am going to give you some basic information about the sun so keep some notes, and don't fall asleep." She smiled and then picked up a piece of chalk and began to write on the chalkboard.

• Largest Object in our Solar System
• Ranks in the top 10% of stars in the Universe
• Made up mostly of Hydrogen
• 1.4 Million Kilometers across - more than 100 times the Earth's diameter
• Over a million Earths could fit inside comfortably
• The gravitational pull keeps everything circling around it

"Now, the sun has been studied with a great deal by wizard astronomers and a witch named Elizabeth Willowvale first noticed that solar flares are not what muggles think they are, as they believe they are storms on the sun, and we won't go into that, but the flares are actually magical energy projecting out from the Sun towards us, towards the Solar System, and if we didn't have these solar flares there would be no magic, it's what is keeping magic running, and the amount of energy that goes into this is phenomenal." Professor Zumwalt glanced at the clock on her desk and smiled up at the students.

"Sadly, that is all the time we have for today, you may go once you've finished copying down the board." she smiled. "Oh and don't forget the homework while you're at it," she added. Adorah waited for the last student to head out before going out herself and locking up the rooms behind her. She was feeling tired and was ready for a full night's rest.

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For full credit, RP the lesson.
For extra credit write a short essay (up to 6 sentences; you'll receive a point for each sentence up to 6) about the Sun with information not provided in class. (Please make sure to have your source listed once again and by this, I mean the website you(OOC) are using for your character!)

 

[Christa Langley]

Christa tiredly slipped into her seat in the tower, once again finding herself wondering why the classes had to be at night. She supposed she couldn’t complain too much, because it could have been worse - she could have been a Slytherin or something, but she was a Gryffindor so she didn’t have as far to go thankfully. She took notes as they discussed the sun, and Christa thought she knew quite a bit about the sun honestly, since it was one of the things her parents often harped on about all the time, about the destructive qualities of the sun and yadda yadda, so she took as many notes as she felt she needed to until the class ended and she was allowed to leave, heading out of the classroom and heading back to her comfortable, soft bed.​

 

[Miles Flynn]

He couldn't really say that he cared much for Astronomy, but he supposed the lessons were alright. Wandering into the classroom, Miles too his seat, slouching back in it to try and get more comfortable as he listened to the Professor. Lectures were pretty boring, and he much preferred the lessons where they got to go out and look up at the stars, but he guessed that every lesson couldn't be like that, and he had to deal with the lectures. Still, he took down his notes, even though he couldn't really say he cared all too much for the lesson content. Once they were finally dismissed, Miles was ready to head back to the common room for the night, gathering his things together as he left the tower.