Paradigm Shift Topic: Personal Computers Chris Woodward GS1140 03/27/2014 As we advance in technology, we begin to develop new and better things. Each of them has only one purpose, which is to better our way of living. When we do that, we begin to realize how important technology really is to our society. Because of the era we are in, we can simplify how we do our daily tasks. That is where the personal computer comes in. At first the idea of a computer was only used by the Military
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astronomy professionals could understand. My favorite element about this documentary was that there was such detail and color in the graphics that I felt like I was actually in space, close enough to the stars and planets. The images of the Eagle nebula and the Horse head nebula were remarkable; the image from the Hubble telescope of the Orion nebula with the spinning disk of dust and debris spinning around a young star was so extraordinary. It blew my mind how that tiny image was indicating that a
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shown that humankind can succeed in reaching their goals that seem too out of reach. Sending people to Mars has the same effect. It will challenge technology and human limits, but sending a man to Mars would reestablish curiosity for the wonders of space, bring
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The corona, the sun's outer layer, reaches up to 2 million degrees Fahrenheit . At this level, the sun's gravity (which according to David R. Williams (December 16, 2016) Sun Fact Sheet Retrieved from: https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/sunfact.html is 274.0 m/s squared on the surface compared to Earth’s 9.78 m/s squared, which turns out to be a ratio of 28.016:1) can't hold on to the rapidly moving particles, and it streams away from the star in the form of a “solar wind”. The properties
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slow the expansion as time went on. Granted, the slowing had not been observed, but, theoretically, the Universe had to slow. The Universe is full of matter and the attractive force of gravity pulls all matter together. Then came 1998 and the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) observations of very distant supernovae that showed that, a long time ago, the Universe was actually expanding more slowly than it is today. So the expansion of the Universe has not been slowing due to gravity, as everyone thought, it
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too small to be classified as planets. Within the inner Solar System, there are more than 150 million asteroids whose diameters are longer than 100 metres. But the number is much larger if smaller ones are counted. In fact, thanks to the advanced telescopes, around 5000 new asteroids are discovered by astronomers per month. Asteroids come in various compositions, shapes and sizes. Some are solid, some are complex mixtures of metals while others are ‘rubble piles’ bound together by the force of gravity
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Question : What country produces Rioja wines? Answer: Spain Question : Who was the favourite daughter of Shakespeare's King Lear? Answer : Cordelia Question : Which is the brightest star? Answer: Sirius Question : Which star has collapsed into itself? Answer : Black Hole Question : Which is the heaviest star? Answer : HDE 269810 IN Magellanic Cloud Question : Which Australkian city includes the suburbs of Cottesloe and Subiaco? Answer : Perth Question : Who discovered Oxygen
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world with a cloud-covered atmosphere composed primarily of carbon dioxide. (more info from NASA Spacelink) Mariner 3 launched on November 5, 1964, was lost when its protective shroud failed to eject as the craft was placed into interplanetary space. Unable to collect the Sun's energy for power from its solar panels, the probe soon died when its batteries ran out and is now in solar orbit. It was intended for a Mars flyby with Mariner 4. Mariner 4 the sister probe to Mariner 3, did reach Mars
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velocity measurements of a whirlpool of hot gas orbiting the black hole. In 1994, Hubble Space Telescope data produced an unprecedented measurement of the mass of an unseen object at the center of M87. Based on the kinetic energy of the material whirling about the center (as in Wheeler's dance, see Question 4 above), the object is about 3 billion times the mass of our Sun and appears to be concentrated into a space smaller than our solar system. A supermassive black hole is the largest type
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importance and meaning to their findings in many different ways. The earliest humans used no more than their naked eyes to track the activity of the sky above them. Today, scientists are able to look at areas of space billions of light years away using equipment like the Hubble Space Telescope. The evolution of these astronomical technologies was no simple feat - the development of this scientific field can be credited to a countless number of people who, over hundreds of years, spent their time straining
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