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Telescope Eagerly Awaiting Madison Fuhhr Intension Stars
1,783 wordsIf someone would have taken me outside and told me to look at the night sky and tell them what I was thinking, two weeks ago I would have probably said some idiotic remark like, "Cool. " If they asked me what I thought about space, I probably would have coldly answered, "I could care less. " I thought that all that space was made of was a huge overabundance of white dots filling the pitch-black sky. The only thing I really liked was the moon because it was the closest thing I could see in space....
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Million Years Ago 65 Million Years
2,114 wordsThe "Nemesis Theory" was an outgrowth of the discovery of Alvarez et al. , that the impact of a large (10 km diameter) comet or asteroid was responsible for the great mass extinction that took place 65 million years ago. Studies of the fossil record by Dave Raup and Jack Sepkoski shows that this was not an isolated event, but one of several mass extinctions that appear to occur on a regular 26 million year cycle. Their original paper analyzed marine fossil families, and was published in the Proc...
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One Of The Greatest Solar System
363 wordsIn 1609 Galileo Galilee Constructed his first telescope. Little did he know that this would be one of the greatest inventions the world would ever see. This fairly simple creation enhanced our ability to see things that are very far away and that cant be seen with the naked eye. We also learned a great many more things about earth, the rest of the solar system and the role it played in the universe. We were able to see the phases of the planets more easily and could see moons revolving around ot...
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Scientific Revolution Heavenly Bodies
2,191 words... ientific Revolution brought many new ideas and beliefs not only to Europe but the entire world. The most widely influential was an epistemological transformation that we call the "Scientific Revolution. " In the popular mind, we associate this revolution with natural science and technological change, but the scientific revolution was, in reality, a series of changes in the structure of European thought itself: systematic doubt, empirical and sensory verification, the abstraction of human kno...
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Planets Revolve Copernican Theory
1,512 words... an accelerating automobile feel the force of the seat against their backs overcoming their inertia so as to increase their velocity. As the car decelerates, the passengers tend to continue in motion and lurch forward. If the car turns a corner, then a package on the car seat will slide across the seat as the inertia of the package causes it to continue moving in a straight line. Any body spinning on its axis, such as a flywheel, exhibits rotational inertia, a resistance to change of its rota...
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Focal Length Distant Objects
1,280 wordsLight and other kinds of electromagnetic radiation coming from the universe outside the Earth must travel enormous distances through space and time to reach observers. Only the brightest and nearest stars can be seen with the unaided eye. To see farther and to clarify and measure what is seen, a telescope is needed. The word telescope is derived from the Greek words tele, "from afar, " and shops, "viewer. " Even a simple homemade telescope can clearly show Saturn's rings, Jupiter's bands and red...
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Radio Telescopes Radio Waves
1,285 words... copes Orbiting telescopes are used to observe the ultraviolet (UV), far infrared, and X-ray portions of the electromagnetic spectrum. The Infrared Astronomical Satellite, placed in orbit in 1983, carried a 22. 5 -inch infrared telescope. Because all matter emits infrared radiation if warm, technologists had to cool the telescope to near absolute zero with liquid helium so its internal heat radiation would not mask radiation it was collecting from deep space objects. Among its many discoverie...
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999 wordsI don't know what the world would be like, but I some very good reasons why it was good that the telescope was created. Before there was the telescope people had to make discoveries by judgment. They were not very accurate discoveries. They also had to just use the naked eye when they would have to use the naked eye when looking at distant objects that could have been easily seen by the telescope. The telescope was one of the main instruments of what has been called the Scientific Revolution of ...
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Professor Of Mathematics University Of Pisa
1,945 wordsGalileo Galilei was an astronomer and mathematician, he was, a man ahead of his time. Galileodiscovered the law of uniformly accelerated motion towards the Earth, the parabolic path of projectiles, and the law that all bodies have weight. Among his other accomplishments was the improvement of the refracting telescope in 1610 and his advocacy of the Copernican theory which brought him into a conflict ideas and truths between himself and the Inquisition. He was condemned by the church whose theori...
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1,508 wordsEdwin Powell Hubble: Great Astronomer of the 19 th Century Twinkle, twinkle little star, How I wonder what you are! Up above the world so high, Like a diamond in the sky (Gardner 98). &# 9; Stars are a marvelous wonder to many people, that is why some people spend most of their lives wondering what is " above the world so high" (Gardner 98). These people study and map the little twinkling stars in order to get a better meaning of them; they are astronomers. Great astronomers like Edwin...
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One Of The Greatest Solar System
369 wordsInThe Telescope The Telescope In 1609 Galileo Galilee Constructed his first telescope. Little did he know that this would be one of the greatest inventions the world would ever see. This fairly simple creation enhanced our ability to see things that are very far away and that can? t be seen with the naked eye. We also learned a great many more things about earth, the rest of the solar system and the role it played in the universe. We were able to see the phases of the planets more easily and cou...
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Hubble Space Telescope Soviet Union
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Stephen Hawkings Universe Wrinkles In Time Hubble
830 wordsDevotion is one characteristic in Hubble that allowed him to do his work so well. Whether it was devotion to his family or to his work. It started when he was just a youth; he was in a family of seven children and was expected to earn money for the family (Whitney 222). Hubble's devotion was mental and also physical. Hubble worked at Mount Wilson for most of his career. Here, he spent hundreds of bone-numbing hours in the observers cage at Mount Wilson telescope. Anyone who has spent time in the...
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Hubble Space Telescope Space Shuttle
585 wordsThe Hubble Space Telescope The Hubble Space Telescope is one of the worlds most powerful earth-orbiting reflecting telescopes. With its capability of producing images from any wavelength, the HST is the eyes of the universe for scientists on earth. The HST has a capability of operating at any wavelength from a near infrared level to a visible range to an ultraviolet level. Because of this capability, scientists can view toward the outmost reach of the universe. The HST has a 2. 4 meter objective...
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Sir Isaac Newton Robert Hooke
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University Of Pisa Galileo Galilei
1,310 words(1564 - 1642) Galileo Galileo Galilei Galileo Galilei (1564 - 1642) Galileo Galilei was born near Pisa, Italy, on February 15, 1564 (Drake). Galileo was the first child of Vincezio Galileo, a merchant and a musician (Jaki 289). In 1574, Galileo? s family moved from Pisa to Florence, where Galileo started his formal education (Jaki 289). Seven years latter, in 1581, Galileo entered the University of Pisa as a medical student (Drake). In 1583, home on vacation from medical school, Galileo began to...
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