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Extra Credit : Inaccuracies in Media

Extra Credit : Inaccuracies in Media

Q Extra Credit Astronomy Work Extra Credit: Inaccuracies in Media Science oftentimes is a point of inspiration for entertainment, particularly astronomy. However, creators also take a lot of artistic license when they use science in their stories, leading to glaring inaccuracies. For this extra credit, think about some of your favourite media that uses astronomy in an integral way. This media can range from movies (like Interstellar or Contact), TV shows (like StarTrek: The Next Generation or The Expanse), or books (like Hitchhiker's Guide or Arthur C Clarke’s works). Write a short explanation about some of the inaccuracies regarding astronomy that you find in this media. Make sure to include an explanation of not only why this science is wrong (to the best of your ability), but also justify why you think science is important in this media (in other words, justify your choice). Try to limit your response to less than 1000 words.

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Every day since June of 1995, folks from NASA have uploaded an Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD). These pictures cover an incredibly broad range of astronomy related topics; anywhere from a picture of the sky taken at a beach, to the first ever picture of a black hole! For this extra credit, we want you to select an APOD related to a topic from this lab (this means anything we have covered - for example: constellations, nighttime sky, the Sun, the Moon, stellar evolution, star clusters, spectroscopy, photometry, extrasolar planets, Hubble Deep Field, galaxies, etc.) and write a 2-paragraph d