Galileo Space Probe
While the Galileo Orbiter was designed to orbit and study Jupiter and its moons, the Galileo Probe was released near Jupiter and was sent into the gas giant itself on 7 December 1995. It …
Two halves have unified to make the James Webb Space Telescope
2019年8月29日 · To combine both halves of Webb, engineers carefully lifted the Webb telescope (which includes the mirrors and science instruments) above the already-combined sunshield …
Tiny satellites could lead the way for huge next-generation …
2019年1月7日 · NASA’s upcoming James Webb Space Telescope is an example of a segmented primary mirror, with a diameter of 6.5 metres (21 feet) and 18 hexagonal segments. Next …
Space telescope finds most distant black hole-powered galaxy
2017年1月31日 · NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has identified the farthest gamma-ray blazars, a type of galaxy whose intense emissions are powered by supersized black holes. …
Ten tips to minimise light pollution - All About Space
2013年9月9日 · These often go by the name of City Light Suppression (CLS) or Anti Light Pollution (ALP) filters. These are narrow band filters that ‘tune out’ the wave lengths of light …
What’s the largest solar telescope in the world?
In Kitt Peak, Arizona, lies one of the most amazing telescopes in the world and also the largest solar instrument on the planet. The McMath-Pierce Solar Telescope is a rather odd-looking …
Heroes of Space: William Borucki
2019年9月18日 · It must have been a disheartening experience; Borucki was turned down in 1992, 1994, 1996 and 1998 with NASA citing the lack of suitable detector technology, costs, …
Space telescopes spot a young star drifting through space alone
Comparing WISE data from 2010 with Spitzer Space Telescope data from 2007, researchers determined that CX330 is likely a young star that had been outbursting for several years. In …
Astronomers witness jet erupting from young failed star
2017年5月18日 · Astronomers using the SOAR telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory have reported the discovery of a spectacular extended jet from a young brown …
Hubble has been watching Neptune’s enormous storm come back …
2019年3月26日 · Just five years later, the Hubble Space Telescope took sharp images of Neptune that revealed both the Earth-sized Great Dark Spot and the smaller Dark Spot 2 had vanished. …