Telescope

These incisions are generally less than 0.5 cm (less than ¼ inch). Carbon dioxide is then used to slowly inflate the abdomen. A thin telescope is inserted through one of the trocars. This allows the surgical team to view the inside of the abdomen on a TV monitor. specialized instruments are placed through the other trocars to perform the operation. For colon surgery, one of the incisions…

We have the Kepler space telescope that is able detect distance planets and it has discovered about 2,000 confirmed planets outside our solar system. However, the Kepler can’t detect all planets because sometimes there are things that can cause issues, like exoplanets casting a shadow makes it hard for astronomers to make predictions about whether or not the atmosphere is suitable for life or not. That’s why quantum computers will help tackle more data in any given telescope view, spot more…

growth of astrological knowledge transformed gradually from Ptolemy to Galileo. It was during the 1600s that the concept of heliocentric erupted, which is the idea that the sun is the center of the celestial body. The introduction of an improved telescope by Galileo himself paved the way to the doubts of the geocentric concept. The concept was one that was widely accepted and supported by the people and Catholic Church. However, the notion that the earth was not the center of the celestial body…

In this course, History 102 Western Civilization Post 1689, the five things I have learned are: Galileo Galilei’s life and accomplishments, political and social thought in the Enlightenment, the industrial revolutions in Europe, Russian Revolution, and the era of totalitarianism. I feel that this course had taught me so much about topics that I only learned a small amount about in my educational career. The topics I have selected are ones that I feel made a large impact in the world, and some in…

dead family members symbolize the moons and the god Jupiter stands in for the planet Jupiter. Galileo’s discovery of the the moons is considered to be important in the field of astronomy as it was one of the “first major discoveries made with a telescope”(Galileo). This leads to another example of symbolism within the same play, in a scene where Jachimo, the main character speaks about his wife Imogen in an aside to the audience. As written in the play “Thanks, fairest lady./What, are men mad?…

Astrophysicists: They're Out of This World By Trinity Bair If astrophysics seems boring to you, just remember: you get to call yourself an “astrophysicist,” which is a pretty good title by itself. So what exactly is an astrophysicist? There are two main kinds. Theoretical astrophysicists are trying to understand the physical processes while observational astrophysicists test theories to explain how our universe works (academicinvest.com). Although they have their differences,…

Christiaan Huygens was a Dutch Mathematician and Scientist in the late 17th century. It becomes difficult at this stage to be any more specific than that, as his achievements are in fields so varied and so far-reaching that the only description of him that fits is ‘polymath’. Indeed, we are only learning of some achievements today, as his reticence to publish many of his works kept many of them from seeing the light of day for quite some time (Igorevich). He was born in the cold April of 1626 in…

and computer science. Forinstance, last year I participated in a collaborative project at the UW Astronomy department. Weused high performance scientific computing methods in C to stitch together composite imagesusing data from the Hubble Space Telescope. Success in such technical areas of study retroactivelyassumes skills almost completely overlapping with those of an analyst.Being an analyst combines technical and analytical expertise with creative thinking and…

amounts of matter are condensed into small spaces, such as when a colossal star dies and collapses. Also, contrary to popular drawings, black holes are invisible because not light can escape. The only way we can detect a black hole is with space telescopes that document the behavior of space material near black holes, or that study the X-Ray waves that are emitted by black holes.…

For my method I chose to draw and paint an outline of the Island, while using different colors to show the different type of land (untouched/touched/lava flow). As I stated in my map proposal, I thought this map would have a larger concentration of “touched” land. I was correct, it shows the overwhelming amount of land that has been changed in order to get more tourist to come visit this Island. I thought having a painting would be best because usually when people think of Hawai’i they think…