The Hubble Space Telescope was launched after a two-year delay on April 24th‚ 1990 from the space shuttle Discovery. This telescope has a length of 13.2 meters and a weight at launch that was 11‚110 kg. It is a space-based optical reflective telescope that observes distant and faint objects. (NASA) One of the most important discoveries of the Hubble Space Telescope has to be that it has revealed the age of the universe to be 13 to 14 billion years old‚ this was a huge improvement from the earth based
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A disgraced NASA Pilot gets a second chance when he’s sent into space to fix the Hubble Telescope‚ but when he uncovers a conspiracy to destroy Earth‚ he must stop it. BRIEF SYNOPSIS: CHARLIE HIM (40’s) is a disgraced NASA pilot that was fired from his job when he tested positive for marijuana. Charlie now struggles to pay his rent and care for SHE DOS SANTOS (30’s) a former orphan that he rescued and considers his sister. She has a noticeable Blue Parrot tattoo. She also has a reoccurring dream
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The Hubble telescope is a telescope that takes pictures of the universe and has transformed the way scientists look at our universe. The Hubble telescope circles the Earth in 97 minutes at a speed of about 5 miles per second. The telescope has taken hundreds of thousands of fascinating pictures of our universe and all the amazing parts of it. The Hubble telescope was named after Edwin Hubble who had made some of the most important discoveries in astronomy. Hubble travels more then 150 million
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Edwin Chadwick Poor Law Public health Success failures Able bodied poor should be kept in workhouses. This way‚ only the desperate would ask for relief Commission of enquiry; he was a committed benthamite. Commissioners devised three different questionnaires. Questions were badly phrased‚ were they seeked the response they wanted. He was seen as a tireless investigator who insisted on seeing for himself the effects of poverty and the operation of the poor laws. Chadwick was
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Edwin Stanton Porter was born on April 21‚ 1870 in Pennsylvania. He had grown up with his parents Thomas Richard Porter and Mary Jane Clark. He had worked in the electrical field at first and began experiencing with electricity. He had worked with light bulb currents and telegraphs. In early 1890’s he had opened his own small business as a tailor‚ until 1893‚ when he had joined the Navy. He served there as an electrician and telegraph operator. With his help communications were improved. After a
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"The Horses" is a poem by Edwin Muir. It tells the story of a world ravaged by nuclear war‚ where the few survivors live hopelessly in a desolate reality. Their outlook is changed by the arrival of the horses‚ a relic of the past which lets them rediscover humanity’s bond with nature. "The Horses"‚ as well as being a very beautiful and moving poem‚ has an important message to convey. The poet uses various methods to illustrate this. Throughout the poem‚ there are many biblical
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How far do the sources agree that Edwin Chadwick contributed little to the progress made in public health in the years 1838-1854? The sources agree to some extent that Edwin Chadwick made little contribution to the progress made in the years 1838-1852 as he made no immediate impact at the time‚ he had all the theories and evidence but didn’t put any of this into action. This led to the limited progress made in public health within these years. Edwin Chadwick made massive long term significance and
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Flatland is a book by Edwin A. Abbott. The beginning of the book describes many of the different aspects of the world Flatland. Flatland is only two dimensions. The amount of sides that shapes have determine what class they belong to. The squares are lawyers‚ and pentagons are doctors. In flatland the shapes’ offspring also have greater amounts of sides. Triangles have quadrilaterals‚ quadrilaterals have pentagons‚ etc. Instead of shapes looking up to their parents and ‘praising’ them they look up
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During the 1990‚ NASA launched The Hubble Space Telescope which was the largest telescope in space (What is the Hubble Space Telescope‚ 2013).The Hubble telescope have utilized the Hubble Space telescope in learning more about the space‚ objects discovered in space‚ and how the planets and galaxies formed. The name of the telescope came from an astronomer named Edwin P.Hubble who accomplished many significant discoveries during the early 1900s (What is the Hubble Space Telescope‚ 2013) His discoveries
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Trio Essay Edwin Morgan’s poem ‘trio’ is about a moment where Morgan saw a man and two girls walking in Glasgow‚ down Buchanan Street in the cold at Christmas time. In the poem Morgan uses different poetic techniques like his specific word choice clever punctuation to show his emotions about this moment and how memorable it was. He also uses techniques like figurative language‚ not just to tell us about his experience but to also explain a deeper comment about life which is that no matter how
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