Tag Telescopes - results: 78
That can make science 600 billion dollars?
the U.S. spends on military spending more than all ten of the following countries combined: $ 600 billion a year. It is almost ten times more than it spends on military spending Russia. Meanwhile, the joint budget of NASA and the ...
Five NASA photos that changed the world
When humanity first broke the bonds of gravity and overcame the limits of our planet's atmosphere, we saw the Universe in its present splendor, which was never seen. Now we are no longer limited to our place of stay on the Ground ...
The launch of the space telescope "James Webb" was postponed in the spring of 2019
If you, like us, counted the days until, as the space Agency NASA will launch into space with a modern space telescope in the world, we have bad news for you – you will have to consider further. Before the withdrawal of the Space ...
The South polar Observatory will help solve the mystery of fast radio pulses
Astronomers from all over the world trying to solve the mystery of fast radio pulses is an incredibly powerful millisecond flares of radio waves coming to us from somewhere outside the Solar system. We still have not figured out w...
Hurricane "Maria" seriously damaged the famous radio telescope, "Arecibo"
"Arecibo" is an astronomical Observatory located in Puerto Rico at a height of 497 meters above sea level. With its help, the national science Foundation and Cornell are conducting various studies. The radio telescope is among the...
Telescope James Webb will be able to see the bumblebee on the moon
If you don't know what level of sensitivity will have a state of the art optics space telescope "James Webb", here's an example that cited senior project officer and Nobel laureate John Mather. According to him, this huge telescop...
The European space Agency will launch a new "hunters" for exoplanets
the scientific programme Committee of the European space Agency approved the further development of the project of a new space mission PLATO (Planetary Transits and Oscillations of stars). Within its framework it is planned to 202...
NASA announced the discovery of 10 more earth-like planets
astronomers at the American space Agency NASA on Monday announced the opening 219 new objects outside the Solar system, most of which may represent the planet. Furthermore, astronomers believe that 10 worlds of this list are plane...
For an ultra-modern telescope JWST has selected the first target for research
the launch of the space telescope «James Webb» (JWST), which will take the place of the old Hubble, is scheduled for October 2018. If all goes well, this new giant space telescope will continue the legacy of the famous "...
10 ways by which aliens are able to contact us
Humanity is still not met any life forms outside of our planet. If you ignore the tales of "Area 51" and "eyewitness encounters with UFOs and their pilots" we still have not received any extraterrestrial signals even remotely tryi...
We will look for life on distant exoplanets?
the Search for extraterrestrial life is undoubtedly one of the most profound scientific events of our time. If extraterrestrial biological life will be found near another world around another star, we'll finally know that life out...
#it is an interesting | Scientific discoveries of 2016. Part 2
Today we present to your attention the 181st episode #it is an interesting in which we will continue to talk about important scientific discoveries and achievements of 2016. Namely, we will focus on the FAST radio telescope, gravi...
NASA astronomers would like to turn the Sun into a giant space telescope
NASA Astronomers try to look further and further into the Universe, and therefore they need large and powerful telescopes. And that is why a team of experts from the jet propulsion Laboratory (JPL) proposed the idea of using the l...
In China opened to tourists, the largest radio telescope in the world
As reported by the news Agency «Xinhua», in Guizhou province, in southwest China, opened its doors to all comers, the world's largest radio telescope, the Five hundred meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST or abbrevia...
The US authorities are planning a fifth expedition to the telescope "Hubble"
the Space telescope «Hubble» watch bears in Earth orbit for many years, making great shots, and aiding astronomers with the research, but like any other device, this automatic Observatory periodically requires maintenanc...
representatives from the European southern Observatory recently published a series of very clear images of the nebula Cat's Paw (NGC 6334) and the lobster nebula (NGC 6357), located in the constellation Scorpio. Each image has ver...
representatives from the European southern Observatory recently published a series of very clear images of the nebula Cat's Paw (NGC 6334) and the lobster nebula (NGC 6357), located in the constellation Scorpio. Each image has ver...
Breakthrough Listen: video gaming modernized search of aliens
Iconic Australian telescope began a serious search for extraterrestrial civilizations. It uses well-known and conventional technology to determine the location of the signal. The Parkes radio telescope located in New South Wales i...