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The Best Inventions of 2009
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....
Tags: New York City, spaceflight, Infrared, Lagrangian point, Sun, William Herschel, Environment, Technology Internet, Infrared telescopes, Space exploration, Herschel Space Observatory, Telescope
Saturn’s Largest Ring Found by Scientists and NASA Telescope
-- Scientists using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope have discovered the largest known ring around Saturn. The nearly invisible sphere is made of ice and dust particles and lies at the outer edge of Saturn’s system, between 3.7 million miles...
Tags: Telescope
UM astronomer discovers huge new ring around Saturn
Boulder :: CO :: USA | about 1 month ago
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Almost 400 years after Galileo spied Saturn's iconic ring system, a University of Maryland astronomer has discovered another gigantic but invisible ring around the planet. More than 14 million miles in diameter, it is by far the largest in the solar system.
Tags: telescope
Examiner.com: Anchorage, Alaska: Quality inexpensive telescope kit to see what Galileo saw
Anchorage :: AK :: USA | about 1 month ago
Credibility An International Year of Astronomy 2009 (IYA2009) Cornerstone Project provides a high-quality, low-cost telescope kit developed by science educators, astronomers, and optical engineers. The Galileoscope is more than a telescope--it's a strategic initiative...
Tags: telescope, moon rocks
New Ring Found Orbiting Saturn
NASA has discovered a new ring orbiting the 6th planet from the sun, Saturn. This ring is an elliptical montrosity that goes around the planet at a range from 3.7 million to 7.4 million miles. NASA reported that the Spitzer Space Telescope...
Tags: planet, Saturn, new ring, rings of Saturn, ring, debris, meteorite, infrared, telescope, Spitzer, moon, Phoebe, orbit
Galilie Galileo and 400 years of telescopes
It was 400 years ago today that Galileo showed his invention, the telescope, to the world. It was a device that helped bridge distances and that gradually became an indispensable part of astronomy. Based on his observation of stellar bodies, Galileo propounded...
Tags: Galilie Galileo, astronomy, telescope, navigation, space exploration
--Lowell scientist's 18-year wait is over
Jacksonville :: FL :: USA | 3 months ago
Credibility Lowell instrument scientist Ted Dunham was working at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in the early 1980s when a co-worker took a theory about finding large faraway planets and sharpened it, wondering if it could be used to find Earth-sized...
Atlantis Space Shuttle Reaches Hubble TeleScope
Space shuttle Atlantis reaches Hubble Telescope orbiting the height of 560km over the earth. Nasa confirmed that the telescope has safely berthed the Atlantis shuttle. On Thursday, Five spacewalkers will repair and upgrade the telescope, which was suffering...
Tags: Hubble, Atlantis, Telescope, Astronauts, NASA
Hubble's greatest hits: Hubble space telescope images
The Hubble Space Telescope was launched in April 1990. After the problems with its main mirror were fixed, it started sending beautifully detailed images of space back to earth. Here are some of the best
Astronomers observe stars forming close to Milky Way's central black hole
Albuquerque :: NM :: USA | 10 months ago
Credibility The center of our galaxy is wracked with powerful gravitational tides that are stirred by a 4 million solar-mass black hole. Those tides should rip apart molecular clouds that act as stellar nurseries, preventing stars from forming in place. But, using...
Tags: black hole, milky way, telescope, universe
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