Archive for the ‘Telescopes’ Category
Livermore aims telescope at eyes - Bizjournals.com
Livermore aims telescope at eyes Bizjournals.com Key to the device is the same adaptive optics principles that allow astronomers to see distant stars from ground-based telescopes. ... |
Astronomy apps - BBC News
Astronomy apps BBC News They were using the Hubble Space Telescope and the imaginatively-named Very Large Telescope in Chile. But to explore the wonders of the universe you do not ... |
BYU deep space discovery - ABC 4
BYU deep space discovery ABC 4 It's the largest, most sensitive, radio telescope in the world. A team of BYU students and professors may have just made it more capable of unraveling the ... |
Galileo and Saturn - Johnson City Record Courier, TX
 Sky & Telescope | Galileo and Saturn Johnson City Record Courier, TX In 1609 Galileo made his first perspicillum (see-through device) which we now call a telescope. It was initially used as a spyglass for ... This Week's Sky at a Glance |
New Antenna on World’s Largest Radio Telescope - Laboratory Equipment
New Antenna on World's Largest Radio Telescope Laboratory Equipment That spot is a platform suspended on cables 500 feet above the world's largest radio telescope, located at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, ... |
Preparing the way for the SKA international radio telescope - Creamer Media’s Engineering News
Preparing the way for the SKA international radio telescope Creamer Media's Engineering News The final decision on the siting of the instrument, which will be the biggest radio telescope ever built, is planned to be made in early 2012. ... Scientific instruments can become objects of national pride and love |
NMSU proposes NSO headquarters relocate to Las Cruces - Las Cruces Sun-News
NMSU proposes NSO headquarters relocate to Las Cruces Las Cruces Sun-News The NSO is using $280 million from the National Science Foundation to build a telescope in Hawaii that will be the biggest solar instrument in the world ... |
Observatory holding free open house in October - Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Observatory holding free open house in October Pittsburgh Post Gazette During the open house, visitors can look at the night sky through the 30-inch Thaw refractor telescope, a 47-foot telescope normally reserved for research. ... |
Preparing the way for the Square Kilometre Array international radio telescope - Creamer Media’s Engineering News
Preparing the way for the Square Kilometre Array international radio telescope Creamer Media's Engineering News The final decision on the siting of the instrument, which will be the biggest radio telescope ever built, is planned to be made in early 2012. ... Scientific instruments can become objects of national pride and love |
World-renowned astronomer Donald C. Backer dies at age 66 - UC Berkeley
 UC Berkeley | World-renowned astronomer Donald C. Backer dies at age 66 UC Berkeley He linked the RAL's 85-foot-centimeter wave telescope to a number of similar antennas distributed across the country and the world. ... |
