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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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DEC 27, 2017Videos
Beyond Neptune is a unique region of our solar system known as the Kuiper Belt. This particular area of space is a lot l ...Written By: Anthony BouchardDEC 19, 2017Videos
2018 will be a big year for NASA, and to help explain why, the space agency compiled the following video outlining some ...Written By: Anthony BouchardDEC 19, 2017Space & Astronomy
Just around two months ago, a cigar-shaped space rock that astronomers say originated from another stellar system came z ...Written By: Anthony BouchardDEC 18, 2017Videos
There are a lot of hazards in outer space, such as temperature, space debris, and radiation. Spacecraft designers keep t ...Written By: Anthony BouchardDEC 14, 2017Videos
Kepler-90 is a distant star system residing around 2,545 light years away from us that NASA now contends has our solar s ...Written By: Anthony BouchardDEC 13, 2017Space & Astronomy
New Horizons made history in 2015 when it flew past Pluto and captured the clearest-ever photographs of the dwarf planet ...Written By: Anthony BouchardDEC 06, 2017Space & Astronomy
The heart of the upcoming James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is now on the move once again after NASA opened the door on ...Written By: Anthony BouchardDEC 04, 2017Plants & Animals
If you’ve ever seen a scallop before, then you can probably attest to how non-complex they look at first glance. T ...Written By: Anthony BouchardDEC 04, 2017Videos
Here's a mind-twister: the color we call black is not actually black, in the sense that black is supposed to be the colo ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanNOV 30, 2017Space & Astronomy
Residing some 325 light years away from our solar system is a hot Jupiter-like exoplanet known as WASP-18b. The alien wo ...Written By: Anthony BouchardNOV 30, 2017Chemistry & Physics
The gamma-ray emission cascades caused by lightning strikes. Credit: Kyoto University/Teruaki Enoto Lightning and radiat ...Written By: Daniel DuanNOV 21, 2017Space & Astronomy
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is well on its way to superseding the Hubble Space Telescope as one of the most ...Written By: Anthony BouchardNOV 20, 2017Videos
If you were to ask a handful of professional astronomers what they thought one of the most intriguing things about outer ...Written By: Anthony BouchardNOV 16, 2017Space & Astronomy
Although Pluto resides 40 times farther from the Sun than the Earth, the once planet turned dwarf planet appears to be m ...Written By: Anthony BouchardNOV 15, 2017Space & Astronomy
Astronomers have been searching the galaxy for potentially-habitable exoplanets for years, but it’s not every day ...Written By: Anthony BouchardNOV 14, 2017Space & Astronomy
Astronomers are in awe after using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile to spy on a couple o ...Written By: Anthony BouchardNOV 09, 2017Space & Astronomy
An international team of astronomers are dumbfounded after discovering what appears to be a star that doesn’t want ...Written By: Anthony BouchardNOV 06, 2017Space & Astronomy
Astronomers employing the Near-infrared Integral Field Spectrograph (NIFS) situated on the Gemini North telescope in Haw ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 30, 2017Space & Astronomy
While astronomers witness asteroids and comets whizzing through our solar system on a consistent basis, it’s not e ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 26, 2017Space & Astronomy
Astronomers and planetary scientists alike appear confident about their theories regarding how the solar system’s ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 24, 2017Space & Astronomy
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is set to succeed the Hubble Space Telescope as the agency’s primar ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 18, 2017Space & Astronomy
It was just a few days ago that astronomers announced a breakthrough in gravitational wave research, and NASA deployed t ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 16, 2017Space & Astronomy
If you’ve been following astronomical research for the last couple of years, then you’ve likely caught wind ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 10, 2017Space & Astronomy
Astronomers are closely monitoring an asteroid dubbed 2012 TC4, which will make an uncomfortably-close encounter with th ...Written By: Anthony Bouchard
DEC 27, 2017
Videos
Beyond Neptune is a unique region of our solar system known as the Kuiper Belt. This particular area of space is a lot l
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 19, 2017
Videos
2018 will be a big year for NASA, and to help explain why, the space agency compiled the following video outlining some
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 19, 2017
Space & Astronomy
Just around two months ago, a cigar-shaped space rock that astronomers say originated from another stellar system came z
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 18, 2017
Videos
There are a lot of hazards in outer space, such as temperature, space debris, and radiation. Spacecraft designers keep t
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 14, 2017
Videos
Kepler-90 is a distant star system residing around 2,545 light years away from us that NASA now contends has our solar s
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 13, 2017
Space & Astronomy
New Horizons made history in 2015 when it flew past Pluto and captured the clearest-ever photographs of the dwarf planet
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 06, 2017
Space & Astronomy
The heart of the upcoming James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is now on the move once again after NASA opened the door on
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 04, 2017
Plants & Animals
If you’ve ever seen a scallop before, then you can probably attest to how non-complex they look at first glance. T
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 04, 2017
Videos
Here's a mind-twister: the color we call black is not actually black, in the sense that black is supposed to be the colo
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
NOV 30, 2017
Space & Astronomy
Residing some 325 light years away from our solar system is a hot Jupiter-like exoplanet known as WASP-18b. The alien wo
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 30, 2017
Chemistry & Physics
The gamma-ray emission cascades caused by lightning strikes. Credit: Kyoto University/Teruaki Enoto Lightning and radiat
...
Written By:
Daniel Duan
NOV 21, 2017
Space & Astronomy
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is well on its way to superseding the Hubble Space Telescope as one of the most
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 20, 2017
Videos
If you were to ask a handful of professional astronomers what they thought one of the most intriguing things about outer
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 16, 2017
Space & Astronomy
Although Pluto resides 40 times farther from the Sun than the Earth, the once planet turned dwarf planet appears to be m
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 15, 2017
Space & Astronomy
Astronomers have been searching the galaxy for potentially-habitable exoplanets for years, but it’s not every day
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 14, 2017
Space & Astronomy
Astronomers are in awe after using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile to spy on a couple o
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 09, 2017
Space & Astronomy
An international team of astronomers are dumbfounded after discovering what appears to be a star that doesn’t want
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 06, 2017
Space & Astronomy
Astronomers employing the Near-infrared Integral Field Spectrograph (NIFS) situated on the Gemini North telescope in Haw
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 30, 2017
Space & Astronomy
While astronomers witness asteroids and comets whizzing through our solar system on a consistent basis, it’s not e
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 26, 2017
Space & Astronomy
Astronomers and planetary scientists alike appear confident about their theories regarding how the solar system’s
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 24, 2017
Space & Astronomy
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is set to succeed the Hubble Space Telescope as the agency’s primar
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 18, 2017
Space & Astronomy
It was just a few days ago that astronomers announced a breakthrough in gravitational wave research, and NASA deployed t
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 16, 2017
Space & Astronomy
If you’ve been following astronomical research for the last couple of years, then you’ve likely caught wind
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 10, 2017
Space & Astronomy
Astronomers are closely monitoring an asteroid dubbed 2012 TC4, which will make an uncomfortably-close encounter with th
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard