A telescope that’s bigger than a galaxy?!? #astronomy
NASA Science News has the scoop on a telescope that, believe it or not, is bigger than a galaxy. … At the January 2014 meeting of the American Astronomical Society, researchers revealed a patch of sky...
View ArticleGLIMPSE360: NASA’s Spitzer telescope lets you see a 360-degree view of the...
Ever wanted to catch a 360 degree glimpse of the Milky Way? Well now you can using this incredible online viewer from NASA’s Spitzer telescope. Check it out here. Welcome home! This is our Milky Way...
View ArticleHow to build an earth-size telescope
Scientific American has an interesting post about how to build a telescope the size of the earth (sort of). Looking into the galactic center is hard. So much dust and gas lies between us and the...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi + telescope = great images of the lunar eclipse! #piday...
Check out this great project from blog.dragon-tortuga.net Ingredients: Raspberry Pi model 2 TFT touchscreen Adafruit TFT/camera Soft Raspberry Pi camera module Celestron First Scope USB tablet charger...
View ArticleHow to build an Evryscope: a new kind of telescope that can photograph the...
MIT Technology Review has an interesting article on the latest technology in telescopes that will be able to photograph the entire sky simultaneously and continuously. One problem with telescopes is...
View ArticleNASA’s James Webb Space Telescope will use SPF 1,000,000 to stay protected
NASA’s Webb Telescope uses SPF 1,000,000 to stay protected! The Sunshield on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is the largest part of the observatory—five layers of thin membrane that must unfurl...
View ArticleBuild your own radio telescope to listen to meteors #backtoschool
This project would be a perfect school activity- you can get the lesson plans here. Via Science Friday. The Perseids are a favorite meteor shower of many Northern Hemisphere skywatchers, especially...
View ArticlePiKon: Sheffield telescope uses the Raspberry Pi camera module #piday...
Via Raspberry Pi Pod. Check out more info on the PiKon site. The PiKon (Disruptive Technology) Telescope is based on the Newtonian Reflecting Telescope. This design uses a concave mirror (Objective)...
View ArticleA Music Box That Draws Its Notes From a Dying Star’s Data (VIDEO) #ArtTuesday
A Music Box That Draws Its Notes From a Dying Star’s Data, from WIRED: …An astrophysicist in Japan had seen one of the company’s music videos and got in touch to ask for help with translating ALMA’s...
View ArticleTom Sherlock uses Raspberry Pi, Wolfram and Mathematic to control telescopes...
From RaspberryPi.org via Raspberry Pi Pod: As an amateur astronomer, I’m always interested in ways to use Mathematica in my hobby. In earlier blog posts, I’ve written about how Mathematica can be used...
View ArticleTime Travel Tuesday #timetravel a look back at the Adafruit, maker, science,...
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. – Galileo Galilei 1609 – Galileo Galilei demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers. Based only...
View Article3D Printed iPhone Adapter for Celestron Telescope
Today we taking time lapses of the moon! Last year we made a lens adapter for a telescope so we could use an iPhone. Since then we have a different phones with better cameras so we thought its time...
View ArticleTime Travel Tuesday #timetravel a look back at the Adafruit, maker, science,...
1885 – Harry Ricardo, English engine designer and researcher is born. Sir Harry Ricardo was one of the foremost engine designers and researchers in the early years of the development of the internal...
View ArticleThis Week in Space: 1,284 ‘Newly Validated Planets,’ Possibly 1,000+ More To...
Maybe you’ve heard that earlier this week NASA confirmed the existence of 1,284 exoplanets by the Kepler telescope: But what’s really interesting if you dive deeper into The Astrophysical Journal...
View Article‘SOFIA’ is a Boeing 747 SP with a Telescope – Basically it’s a Flying...
A quarter of the way into its 20-year-mission, SOFIA stands for Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy – it’s a 747 outfitted with a 2.5m reflecting telescope; most-impressively, the...
View ArticleArt and Other Awesomeness Inspired by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope |...
(Early full-scale model on display at NASA Goddard (2005), via Wikipedia)The Webb was recently removed from cryo. Now whenever humans are near it you might catch them working on webcam errrr WebbCam...
View ArticleList of All of @NASA’s Social Media Accounts
From the Curiosity Rover’s Twitter to three separate telescopes with various social accounts, you might get confused with who/what you follow where. It’s understandable – the agency is after all more...
View ArticleA tour of the massive desert telescopes discovering exoplanets
Via Fastcodesign The Atacama Desert is the driest desert in the world, a barren, 41,000-square-mile landscape made of stone, salt lakes, sand, and lava distributed along a 600-mile-long strip on...
View ArticleChandra Telescope Observes Two Decades of Turning Theory Into Reality
via SmithsonianWhen looking at glorious images of cosmic phenomena, like black holes and supernovae, with striking colors set against the stark, dark backdrop of the universe, it’s important to...
View ArticleWhy does the James Webb Space Telescope need to be kept cold?
via NPRIn order to make these observations, the scientific instruments on the telescope need to be kept incredibly cold. That means a crucial part of the telescope is the massive sunshield that will...
View ArticleHow a Solar Gravitational Lens Could Closely Examine Exoplanets for Signs of...
Here’s an amazing concept. A natural telescope, made from the Sun’s gravitational field, that could be used to peer closely at exoplanet in search for signs of extraterrestrial life. And we’re talking...
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