Herschel scans hidden Milky Way

The Best Inventions of 2009

By: intellectual

The Telescope for Invisible Stars It's no secret that space is cold. But in some places, it's so frigid that light can't radiate in the visible spectrum, which makes celestial bodies invisible. Now the Herschel Space Observatory is exposing them. Launched in May by the European Space Agency, Herschel scans the skies in the infrared spectrum. ...

23 days ago

Strange Shapes Seen In Milky Way's Tiny Neighbor

By: MrFkas

A stunning new image of one of the Milky Way's nearest galactic neighbors, Barnard's Galaxy, reveals rich star formation and curiously-shaped nebulas.   At the relatively close distance of about 1.6 million light-years, http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/imagedisplay/img_display.php?pic=091014-barnards-galaxy-02.jpg&cap=...

about 1 month ago

1. World’s First Digital Camera (1975): Created by Kodak's engineer ...

By: hasnain

In December 1975, Kodak engineer Steve Sasson invented something that would, decades later, revolutionize photography: the world’s first digital camera. It was the size of a toaster, and captured black and white images at a resolution of 100×100 - or 0.01 megapixels in today’s marketing terminology. The images were stored on ...

24 days ago

Cool Footage: Meteor Caught on Tape

By: amalgam80

At 12:07 am in Utah, a flash of light lit up the sky, making it look as if it were day. The light came from a meteor entering the Earth’s atmosphere.   The surveillance cameras at the Salt Lake City observatory caught the spectacle on video.   The footage is shown from 2 different cameras.   In Camera 1 the meteor is ...

20 days ago