The Journey to Outer Space - Essay Example

My Journey to Outer Space Ever since I was a young child, I used to look at the stars and wondered how they glowed. It was until now that I discovered that this brightness as monitored from Earth referred to apparent magnitude and the stars or any other celestial body’s intrinsic brightness referred to as its absolute magnitude. Last weekend when I was watching a movie known as Star Trek (of which I am a great admirer), I suddenly fell asleep and found myself within the spaceship along with all the other characters of the movie.

It was an experience of my journey to outer space which I will always remember. My presence on the spaceship put me in a state of shock but gradually I adapted to the situation. The spaceship was headed towards the planet Saturn where the team members of my crew were to witness certain changes in the outer shell of the planet. This change was considered to have happened because of a reported explosion. I wandered around the spaceship and was delighted by seeing objects and machines that I had never seen.

Despite being in a different place, I started to like my surroundings. My attention drifted to one of my crew members, Ronald, who was sitting around a table that had navigation and mapping devices. The charm of those devices attracted me towards Ronald and lured me to ask the meaning of the terminologies that he was mentioning to the pilot of the ship. Later, it was Ronald and the pilot who explained to me that the term light-year and Parsec were both units of length and that the spaceship had to travel 4.

28 light-years to reach Saturn and to ascertain the distance, a method referred to as parallax was used. During our journey, I witnessed different stars, meteors and asteroids. Few of the celestial bodies that I witnessed glowed in such a way that it displayed a red shade; this was referred to as Redshift in the astronomical language. When I first heard about the distance I thought that it would take many years to reach the destination but within a few hours, I heard an announcement that stated that we were approaching our destination.

I was really looking forward to stepping on Saturn but at that particular moment, I fell with a thud on the floor and my eyes opened. I realized that it was just a dream.I found myself lying on the floor in front of the television and the credits were rolling down on my television screen. The movie had finished along with the dream of my journey to the outer space.