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Telescopes are optical tools used by astronomers to visualize distant objects. There are many types of telescopes including optical, radio, X-ray, and Gamma-ray telescopes. The first known telescopes were invented in the Netherlands at the beginning of the 17th century.
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NOV 03, 2018Earth & The Environment
The controversy between Hawaiian conservationists and scientists intensifies with the Supreme Court’s recent appro ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanOCT 30, 2018Space & Astronomy
For more than nine-and-a-half years, NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope helped curious astronomers on their quest to id ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 23, 2018Space & Astronomy
On October 5th, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope experienced a troublesome gyroscope malfunction. Onboard software at ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 22, 2018Space & Astronomy
Sagittarius A* is a black hole that resides at the center of the Milky Way. Astronomers estimate that Sagittarius A* spo ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 17, 2018Space & Astronomy
Black holes have long captivated some of the most brilliant minds in astrophysics, and despite all the space telescope o ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 15, 2018Space & Astronomy
NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory was recently kicked into safe mode following a mysterious anomaly. Spacecraft eng ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 14, 2018Space & Astronomy
A little more than a week ago, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope started exhibiting wonky gyroscope data consistent wi ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 08, 2018Space & Astronomy
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, which launched into orbit around the Earth in 1990, remains one of the most powerfu ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 03, 2018Space & Astronomy
While analyzing data from NASA’s Hubble and Kepler Space Telescopes, astronomers happen upon new exoplanets all th ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 02, 2018Space & Astronomy
NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope earned a reputation for being quite the capable exoplanet hunter, but after all thes ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 26, 2018Space & Astronomy
Among all the extrasolar systems astronomers have discovered to date, the TRAPPIST-1 system is unquestionably one of the ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 24, 2018Space & Astronomy
Astronomers restlessly search for distant exoplanets, not only because they can teach us more about the planet we live o ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 23, 2018Space & Astronomy
Following in the successful footsteps of NASA’s Kepler mission, the space agency’s brand-new Transiting Exop ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 18, 2018Space & Astronomy
In 2013, a notably-sized meteor exploded over the sky in Chelyabinsk, Russia. The shockwave from this event was so power ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 12, 2018Space & Astronomy
If you were to examine outer space with a powerful telescope, you’d see a bevy of distant galaxies containing unco ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 10, 2018Space & Astronomy
Despite an onslaught of delays that have thus far prevented NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope from being launched ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 04, 2018Space & Astronomy
NASA is currently eyeballing Friday, September 7th for the third consecutive launch of its Focusing Optics X-ray Solar I ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 27, 2018Space & Astronomy
NASA engineers originally designed the Spitzer Space Telescope to observe the heavens for approximately 2.5 years. But 1 ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 22, 2018Chemistry & Physics
Since the Big Bang, our universe has never ceased expanding. The rate of cosmic expansion, now known as the Hubble Const ...Written By: Daniel DuanAUG 15, 2018Space & Astronomy
Exoplanetary research is a hot commodity among astronomers. Not only can it teach us more about planetary formation and ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 14, 2018Space & Astronomy
It’s not uncommon for astronomers to find supermassive black holes at the center of massive galaxies, but it is so ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 13, 2018Space & Astronomy
While scanning far and wide with the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST), astronomers fro ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 08, 2018Space & Astronomy
Our universe is a mysterious place, and that’s why astronomers are always peering into the depths of outer space i ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 07, 2018Space & Astronomy
The James Webb Space Telescope is set to become NASA’s latest and greatest space-based observatory, superseding th ...Written By: Anthony Bouchard
NOV 03, 2018
Earth & The Environment
The controversy between Hawaiian conservationists and scientists intensifies with the Supreme Court’s recent appro
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
OCT 30, 2018
Space & Astronomy
For more than nine-and-a-half years, NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope helped curious astronomers on their quest to id
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 23, 2018
Space & Astronomy
On October 5th, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope experienced a troublesome gyroscope malfunction. Onboard software at
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 22, 2018
Space & Astronomy
Sagittarius A* is a black hole that resides at the center of the Milky Way. Astronomers estimate that Sagittarius A* spo
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 17, 2018
Space & Astronomy
Black holes have long captivated some of the most brilliant minds in astrophysics, and despite all the space telescope o
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 15, 2018
Space & Astronomy
NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory was recently kicked into safe mode following a mysterious anomaly. Spacecraft eng
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 14, 2018
Space & Astronomy
A little more than a week ago, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope started exhibiting wonky gyroscope data consistent wi
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 08, 2018
Space & Astronomy
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, which launched into orbit around the Earth in 1990, remains one of the most powerfu
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 03, 2018
Space & Astronomy
While analyzing data from NASA’s Hubble and Kepler Space Telescopes, astronomers happen upon new exoplanets all th
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 02, 2018
Space & Astronomy
NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope earned a reputation for being quite the capable exoplanet hunter, but after all thes
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 26, 2018
Space & Astronomy
Among all the extrasolar systems astronomers have discovered to date, the TRAPPIST-1 system is unquestionably one of the
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 24, 2018
Space & Astronomy
Astronomers restlessly search for distant exoplanets, not only because they can teach us more about the planet we live o
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 23, 2018
Space & Astronomy
Following in the successful footsteps of NASA’s Kepler mission, the space agency’s brand-new Transiting Exop
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 18, 2018
Space & Astronomy
In 2013, a notably-sized meteor exploded over the sky in Chelyabinsk, Russia. The shockwave from this event was so power
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 12, 2018
Space & Astronomy
If you were to examine outer space with a powerful telescope, you’d see a bevy of distant galaxies containing unco
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 10, 2018
Space & Astronomy
Despite an onslaught of delays that have thus far prevented NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope from being launched
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 04, 2018
Space & Astronomy
NASA is currently eyeballing Friday, September 7th for the third consecutive launch of its Focusing Optics X-ray Solar I
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 27, 2018
Space & Astronomy
NASA engineers originally designed the Spitzer Space Telescope to observe the heavens for approximately 2.5 years. But 1
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 22, 2018
Chemistry & Physics
Since the Big Bang, our universe has never ceased expanding. The rate of cosmic expansion, now known as the Hubble Const
...
Written By:
Daniel Duan
AUG 15, 2018
Space & Astronomy
Exoplanetary research is a hot commodity among astronomers. Not only can it teach us more about planetary formation and
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 14, 2018
Space & Astronomy
It’s not uncommon for astronomers to find supermassive black holes at the center of massive galaxies, but it is so
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 13, 2018
Space & Astronomy
While scanning far and wide with the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST), astronomers fro
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 08, 2018
Space & Astronomy
Our universe is a mysterious place, and that’s why astronomers are always peering into the depths of outer space i
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 07, 2018
Space & Astronomy
The James Webb Space Telescope is set to become NASA’s latest and greatest space-based observatory, superseding th
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard