period and its absolute luminosity * period ranges from 1 – 100 days * method: find the period to get the luminosity measure the apparent brightness determine distance from luminosity and brightness RED SHIFT * Based on Edwin Hubble’s theory that the world
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THE HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE Telescopes have only been around for about 400 years. Since then‚ they have evolved quickly and helped astronomers make remarkable discoveries. Ground based telescopes were the first‚ but we needed a way to observe the cosmos in the vacuum of space‚ without the light pollution and atmosphere of earth. The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) was the tool that helped propel astronomy to the next level. It has helped us understand the universe in new ways‚ but Hubble
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The Theory of the Big Bang started from observations and scientific facts. The Big Bang theory states that after the “Big Bang” the universe expanded from its original pea-sized origin to astronomical proportions‚ and the expansion of the universe still continues today but at a much slower rate. In the twentieth century many scientific developments were made by scientists that contributed to the creation of the Big Bang Theory. In 1910 Vesto Slipher was the first person to observe shifts in spectral
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The Hubble Space Telescope is a space telescope that was carried into orbit by a Space Shuttle in 1990 and remains in operation. A aperture telescope in low Earth orbit‚ Hubble’s four main instruments observe in the near ultraviolet‚ visible‚ and near infrared. The telescope is named after the astronomer Edwin Hubble. Hubble’s orbit outside the distortion of Earth’s atmosphere allows it to take extremely high-resolution images with almost no background light. Hubble’s Deep Field has recorded some
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The Hubble Telescope has made about a million observations in the infinite universe. This telescope has helped mankind learn about the mysteries of the universe. Almost all the beautiful and unique galaxies we see today‚ are because of The Hubble Telescope. The technology aboard Hubble is one-of-a-kind and one of our most advanced piece of work. The telescope is named after Edwin Hubble‚ an astronomer who made great discoveries in his time. The Hubble Telescope is truly a masterpiece and has helped
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LITERATURE: JOHN JASPER IN ’’THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD’’ BY CHARLES DICKENS Student: Tanja Kurilić Professor: dr.sc. Sintija Čuljat Rijeka‚ 2012 TABLE OF CONTENTS: 1. Introduction 2. The idea of The Double in literature 3. John Jasper in The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens 4. Is Jasper guilty or not? 5. Conclusion 6. Works cited 1. INTRODUCTION One of the most famous Dickens’s novels‚ The Mystery of Edwin Drood offers a lot of themes which could be
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"It has often been remarked that woman have a curious power of divining the characters of men"(75). This quotation from The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens reflects the opposite of what a typical Dickensian society is supposedly based upon. In this standard society‚ the plot would be based around the life of a dominant male. Although the title reflects a male name‚ the movement in the novel is directly related to the exploits of a particular character‚ Rosa Bud. Fondly called Rosebud by
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The publication of the first instalment of The Mystery of Edwin Drood appeared in Dickens’s weekly “All Year Round” in April 1870. It arosed wide attention from the audience for the author’s latest work “which promised to be one of his most effective and popular books (Morford 5).” At the time Dickens was writing The Mystery of Edwin Drood‚ the police force established in 1829 did not work exclusively on prevention of crime any more‚ it focused on detection too; the daily press was abounding in
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Hall 1 Mrs. Hawks English CP 1 10 April 2012 Imagery by Edwin Arlington Robinson Edwin Arlington Robinson was born in Head Tide‚ Maine on December 22‚ 1869. He moved to a town named Gardiner where he grew up; the town later provided the model for a series of poems that he wrote throughout his career as a poet (Peschel). Robinson attended Harvard from 1891 to 1893 even though his parents were against going to a school of higher value for the education. President Theodore Roosevelt helped Robinson
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Born in Maine and educated for two years at Harvard‚ Edwin Arlington Robinson lived much of his life in New York City‚ where he worked at odd jobs‚ including a time with the subway authority. He never married and had few friends. For his earliest poems‚ written during the 1880s‚ he fell under “the influence of Thomas Hardy’s rather gloomy novels of individual tragedy” (none of Hardy’s poetry was published in book form until 1898‚ by which time Robinson’s style was already formed). Robinson’s early
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