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Academics Weekly Assignment — March 27th, 2022

Welcome to the Academics weekly assignment for the week of March 27th, 2022! These weekly assignments will give our Professors the ability to showcase some of their lesson ideas here on the website. Each assignment will be posted for a week, in which everyone will be able to read about the topic and respond to the assignment prompt. This week's assignment is "Astronomy - James Webb Space Telescope” created by Leo (LeoTheLynx).

The assignment is as follows:
Background
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is the best telescope ever invented by humanity. Its primary goal is to enable the study of the first stars and galaxies of our universe using JWST’s infrared system.

This telescope will be able to succeed the Hubble Space Telescope because of its improvements in sensitivity to detect light.
The telescope’s name is given as a tribute to James E. Webb, who was an administrator of NASA and worked in many of the Apollo programs.

In order to measure the light from these distant stars and galaxies, the James Webb Space Telescope needed a primary mirror with a 6.5m diameter. A mirror this size is very hard to make, even to use on ground. Therefore, it is almost impossible to be launched into space. To avoid this problem, the engineers decided to create 18 different segments of this mirror that could be folded up. This way, when JWST achieved its destiny of orbiting the Earth, all of the mirrors would unfold and work as they should.



Assignment
Imagine that you were one scientist involved with the James Webb Space Telescope and discovered another galaxy similar to ours, with a planet extremely similar to Earth with life on it. What would you do? Would you try to contact the living beings there? Would you keep it a secret? Or maybe share it to the world? Be as creative as you want!

Please make sure to write at least 5 full sentences to get AC for this assignment! Your assignment must be entirely written by you, and may not be plagiarized (including copying anything from online sources, books, or movie plots) in any way. Assignments must follow all PotterworldMC rules, which can be found here; assignments that do not follow all PotterworldMC rules will be subject to punishment. If your assignment does not meet the requirements, you will be unable to redo your assignment for this week. Assignments are due at 12am PST on Sunday, April 3rd, 2022. You may submit as soon as you would like, but any assignments submitted after that time will not receive grades. You may receive up to 20 ACs for your submission. House points will not be awarded to any submissions. If you have any questions, please reach out to a Jr. Professor, Sr. Professor, Academics Advisor, or Head of Academics on Discord.

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