Month: January 2019

What further knowledge will we Acquire about space when the James Webb Telescope enters orbit?

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The James Webb Telescope is going to be the largest telescope ever placed in space, and it will be 100 times more powerful than the Hubble telescope. The Webb telescope is planned to be launched in the year 2021, and will be launched from Arianespace’s ELA-3 launch complex near Kourou, France Guiana. It’s beneficial for launch sites to be located near the equator, as the spin of the earth helps give an additional push. The Webb Telescope is so big that it has to be folded Origami-style to fit into the rocket, and will unfold like a “Transformer” in space. One of the methods that the Telescope will use to study the atmosphere is the transit method, which is to look for the dimming light of a star as its planet passes between us and the star. It will be able to cover longer wavelengths then the Hubble and will have greatly improved sensitivity. Leading the Webb to tell us more about the atmospheres of extrasolar planets, and perhaps even find the building blocks of life elsewhere in the universe. It could also discover something that we didn’t even know existed, such as new galaxies and possibly even planets that we could inhabit.

Image result for james webb telescope in rocket

In this picture, we can see a diagram of how the Webb Telescope is going to fit into the rocket, as it’s so big it needs to be folded into the rocket. But after launch, and when the rocket has entered orbit it will shoot out and unfold into the shape of said Webb telescope.

https://youtu.be/bTxLAGchWnA

In this video we can see the Webb telescope in detail unfolding and we can see exactly the goal of the Webb.

https://jwst.nasa.gov/launch.html

https://www.jwst.nasa.gov/

https://twitter.com/NASAWebb

https://jwst.nasa.gov/jwstKeyFactsInternational/

https://jwst.nasa.gov/faqLite.html

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Blackout Poem – “O Captain, My Captain.”

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Analysis of O Captain! My Captain

 

It is important to understand the full meaning of a poem such as “O Captain! My Captain!”, By Walt Whitman. A poem can have two different meanings, figuratively and literally. The poem is written in a first-person point of view. It begins with the narrator addressing their voyage “O CAPTAIN! my Captain! our fearful trip is done” (1) The mood throughout the whole poem is celebratory, but also somber at the same time. As the crew have just came back from a journey, and have succeeded in it, but their captain has fallen dead. As they’re coming back to shore, the crowd is seen celebrating “For you bouquets and ribbon’d wreaths—for you the shores a-crowding” (11). Although this is because the shore is not informed that the Captain is dead, confirming that the mood is celebratory for the people on the shore, but very somber for the people aboard the vessel. Upon further research into the novel, the literal meaning of the novel is about a captain who dies during their voyage, but the figurative meaning is about Abraham Lincolns assassination, and how much he did for America, such as abolishing slavery, but also causing the Civil War. The poem also uses poetic devices such as, Repetition and we see that a lot in the story with the narrator repeating “for you” (10-12) This is to emphasize that it is for “you” as in the Captain. We also see alliteration “But O heart! heart! heart!” (4) and finally, a metaphor “It is some dream that on the deck, you’ve fallen cold and dead.” (15-16). There are many poems such as “O Captain! My Captain” that have different meanings in them, so it is important to look deeper into poems to see if they can have another meaning, or you will miss out on understanding poems to the fullest potential.