Tag: telescope
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August 11, 2009 07:32 AM EDT --
NASA's Kepler space telescope has already made a discovery, and its science operations aren't even officially under way yet.
The planet used in the test is a giant gas planet about the size of Jupiter . . .
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May 11, 2009 02:32 PM EDT --
"CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Seven astronauts blasted off on the space shuttle Atlantis on Monday for one last flight to the Hubble Space Telescope - an extraordinarily ambitious mission that NASA hopes . . .
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September 06, 2009 12:38 AM EDT --
My son took these pictures of the moon @ 2:00 am Saturday morning through his telescope
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October 12, 2009 04:59 AM EDT --
It was billed as one of the most ambitious missions in the history of space exploration - two spacecraft smashing into the surface of Moon and creating a six-mile high cloud of dust visible from telescopes . . .
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October 31, 2009 01:36 AM EDT --
Free telescope keychain
http://www.sunexplosion.com/news458.htm
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November 30, 2009 07:45 AM EST --
The death throes of one of the biggest stars known to science have been spied by Europe's Herschel space telescope.
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December 09, 2005 12:50 PM EST --
I just read Peterson Field Guides Note of the Week -- Mercury - here on Gather.
It makes me want to be an optimist - I want to look up more.
I'm wondering if any Gatherers have suggestions . . .
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September 16, 2008 09:27 AM EDT --
Apparently the Hubble telescope noticed an object that just plain wasn't there a minute ago.
Here's an artists rendering of what the object might look like close up .
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April 24, 2008 05:34 PM EDT --
We purchased our Grand Kids, Haley and Parker, a set of small binoculars for Easter. They loved them. They would go outside and look at the river and so many times we had to go out and find them. We would . . .
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November 02, 2007 11:55 AM EDT --
Comet-17P/Holmes - Courtesy of My Husband.
Hubby made it out to the Dome last night and took some pictures.
He has posted his picture of Comet 17P on his Astronomy Web site.
Hubby says . . .
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May 22, 2009 05:00 PM EDT --
New Jersey Institute of Technology's new 1.6-meter clear aperture solar telescope--the largest of its kind in the world--is now operational. The unveiling of this remarkable instrument--said to be . . .
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November 13, 2009 08:53 AM EST --
Colourful, swirling clouds of cosmic dust interspersed with glowing star clusters are revealed in this extraordinary image of the Milky Way.The dazzling image combining reds, yellows, blues and purples, . . .
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October 01, 2007 04:31 PM EDT --
Got up this morning at 6 AM and bummed around the house until it was time to go with my hubby at 7. It is his day off and we had a day of errands we wanted to accomplished today. Just before we left . . .
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March 26, 2009 07:37 PM EDT --
Our Vanishing Night
Star Chasing
By Tammie R. Smith
Photograph by Jim Richardson
"Starry nights have become rare and exotic skyscapes for many Americans. Light pollution . . .
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February 27, 2008 07:46 PM EST --
I recently purchased the March 2008 issue of "Sky & Telescope: The Essential Magazine of Astronomy." As expected, . . .
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March 21, 2009 11:15 AM EDT --
nearby!
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October 27, 2008 09:55 AM EDT --
Construction of telescopes at home is not an impossible task that is evident by the sheer number of people willing to attempt it at home. Learning the methodology of making a telescope is not very difficult . . .
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May 31, 2007 05:21 PM EDT --
Stargazing...
Clear night amid a panoply of stars,
Light from suns that may already
Be dead, toasted cinders in
The maelstrom of galaxies.
These eyes . . .
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March 20, 2007 01:30 PM EDT --
This article of jokes is dedicated to science teachers, who I feel make very valuable contributions to society because science is very important.
Old teachers never die; they just lose . . .
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February 12, 2009 06:25 AM EST --
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -– Scientists are keeping a close eye on orbital debris created when two communications satellites — one American, the other Russian — smashed into each other hundreds of miles . . .
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