Dear all, Upon inheriting the Looking Glass from our predecessors, we identified a number of key issues. Firstly, there were simply not enough articles being published, due both to a lack of submissions from the school community and limited responsiveness from the previous Academic Team. Secondly, the Looking Glass had not been advertised or explained effectively enough to the wider school community. As a result, we plan to implement a more consistent and engaging stream of articles on the Looking Glass. As part of this initiative, we are looking to recruit a select group of keen writers from across the lower school who would be willing to produce one high-quality piece of writing, discussion, or media each month for publication on the Looking Glass. We believe this will be hugely beneficial both to the school community, which will gain access to a wider range of opinions and viewpoints, and to prospective writers, who will be able to reference their experience contributing to the Look...
Akshay Khanolkar (12C) At the writing of this article the James Webb Space Telescope has been in space for over 1 year and 5 months, in that time it has taken some truly spectacular photos bringing out never before seen detail in nebulae and looking for bio-signatures indicative of alien life, on worlds trillions of kilometres away. As stunning as the images the JWST takes, the entire operation is estimated to have an astronomical cost of over $10 Billion. Is there any way for you and me to take an image even remotely resembling what is produced from the JWST? It is important to note that unlike the Hubble space telescope, every image you have seen from the JWST is a false colour image, this is because the JWST captures light in the infrared part of the spectrum which is invisible to us. To create a colour image the scientists identify which elements are present in parts of the image and assign them a colour, so our image may not resemble the JWST’s at all Both our and the JWST’s large...