Telescope

There are many spectacular events that happen in the universe. Some events are as common and simple as a sunrise in the morning or the northern lights dancing across the night sky. Other events are less common and hold a beautiful mystic to them like a comet streaking across the sky. Of all the magnificence spectacles that occur in the universe, there are not many that equal the power or beauty of a supernova. Supernovas occur at the end of the star’s life cycle as the star depletes its fuel.…

rights, and not give up on their dreams. The play had five actors, with one actor playing only one character. The main character, Henrietta Leavitt, is an inspiring astronomer who began working at Harvard University. She was not allowed to touch a telescope, and her job was to analyze and calculate stars from images. This play is a story of making right decisions. Henrietta had to choose…

Carlie Zeisler Mrs. Stetson Scientific Revolution Paper Johannes Kepler “The path of a planet around the sun is an ellipse, with the Sun as the focal point,” -Kepler's first law of planetary motion. The Scientific Revolution was the beginning of the scientific discoveries that have formed modern science. This period started during the end of the Renaissance and continued throughout the 18 century. Johannes Kepler was a major figure in this period, including the observations mentioned in his…

My Sister’s Keeper: Epilogue Kate 2011 It’s been exactly one year since Anna’s death. Miraculously I haven’t I haven’t relapsed since I got Anna’s kidney’s. Everything in our house reminds me of her, the bathroom where we used to fight over who kept our stuff where, the dinner table where Anna always had some goofy story to tell, and most of all our room where her bed still stands and everything exactly how she left it that dreadful day. Jesse’s life completely turned around after the accident,…

Astronomy is an ongoing process because we are always working on new and improved things. Right now NASA is planning a one way ticket to mars. NASA is building a ship powerful enough to take people to Mars, it will have enough supplies for 1,100 days in space. They are sending down overs to build the station and bring supplies. They will not come back on this mission but hopefully next time they will. Scientific discoveries have influenced society by even some of the earliest times. For example,…

The Hubble Space Telescope, NASAś first great observatory was processed at Kennedy space center in central Florida and launched April 24, 1990. The Compton Gamma Ray Observatory which was the heaviest payload to have flown in space at the time of its launch April 5, 1991 weighed…

Michelangelo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelangelo https://www.michelangelo.org/ Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarotti Simoni was born on March 6,1475 in Caprese near Arezzo, Tuscany. Died on February 18, 1564 at the age of 88 in Papal States, Rome. He was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet of the High Renaissance born in the Republic of Florence who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art. He was the first artist who was recognized during his life…

DLR’s mission comprises the exploration of the Earth and the solar system, as well as research aimed at protecting the environment and developing environmentally compatible technologies, and at promoting mobility, communication and security. DLR’s research portfolio, which covers the four focus areas Aeronautics, Space, Transportation and Energy, ranges from basic research to innovative applications. DLR operates large-scale research centres, both for the benefit of its own projects and as a…

Scientific Revolution Harshendra Shah B.Tech(CSE), IIIT Vadodara Date : 12th March, 2018 Introduction : There are infinite outcomes to every minor event in our lives, and each of those possible outcomes will have tremendous impact on the future. Of course, these laws are taken for granted by most of us, but in looking at them we could better understand the present with respect to our past. In this case the Scientific Revolution was the beginning of the Age of Enlightenment, which eventually…

The great Neil deGrasse Tyson once said something along the lines of humans have only discovered about 4% of the universe. Not only does my fear of what I don't know going on below my feet in the ocean scare the crap out of me, but that big star filled sky does as well. It doesn't just scare me, but it probably scares and excites scientists studying it all over the world. Since we only know a fraction of the inter-workings of the universe, there are many questions and things going on that we…