A subject I enjoy studying

 

Astronomy is one of my favorite subjects to study, this is a science that studies the celestial bodies of the universe such as planets, satellites, comets and asteroids. It is also interested in interstellar matter such as stars, nebulae, galaxies and dark matter. Perhaps one of the most interesting topics studied is related to extraterrestrial life. In short, astronomy is the science of the physical universe at the macro level that studies the events that occur in it.

Since I was very young, I had always liked mathematics and when I entered high school, they started to teach us Physics. From the first moment I was fascinated with the physical explanations about how the world worked, but unfortunately at school we never got to pass subjects related to astronomy. So, in the summers, due to my enchantment with physics, I started to research and learn a lot about astronomy, until in the summer of 2017 I took a "Planetary Sciences" course. From that I fell in love with the subject, at first, I thought that astronomy was just looking at the sky and drawing stars to name them, but as I was learning I understood that it is a much more complex subject, and it is strongly related to mathematics and physics. From that I learned a lot about how the planets are formed, their characteristics, what is necessary for life to exist, the development of the stars, the movement of the stars and how to identify them in the sky, in addition to improving my mathematical knowledge, I learned new formulas and functions.

I think what I like the most is that it is very satisfying when you can understand some astronomical theory and see how it is intertwined with other theories that allow you to understand how the world works, from the simplest to the most complex. Besides the fact that looking at the sky is very nice; I like to think about everything that is out there and that we are not as big as we think we are.