Category: Euclid

European Telescope Launched to Hunt for Clues to Universe’s Darkest Secrets

July 2, 2023
EuclidScienceSpacetelescopeuniverse
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—A European space telescope blasted off Saturday on a quest to explore the mysterious and invisible realm known as the dark universe. SpaceX launched the European Space Agency’s Euclid observatory toward its ultimate destination 1 million miles (1.5 million kilometers) away, the Webb Space Telescope’s neighborhood. It will take a month to get…

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What Good Is Poetry? ‘Euclid Alone Has Looked on Beauty Bare’

August 7, 2021
Arts & CultureEuclidLife & TraditionLiteraturepoetry
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Math is not often associated with poetry, but it should be. “Poetry,” from the Greek “poiesis,” meaning “to make,” is a language art that makes connections between the physical realities, while mathematics manipulates the metaphysical principles that govern them. Poetry helps us see that the quantitative functioning of matter is not all that matters, and…

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