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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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JAN 08, 2017Space & Astronomy
Fast radio bursts, also known as FRBs, are seemingly coming from everywhere in space these days, and astronomers are ver ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJAN 06, 2017Space & Astronomy
One of the types of exoplanets that stick out most to astronomers who study the curious and distant heavens are hot, gas ...Written By: Anthony BouchardDEC 30, 2016Space & Astronomy
A new study into the distant star systems that we discover and observe with the Kepler space telescope and more suggests ...Written By: Anthony BouchardDEC 29, 2016Space & Astronomy
There appears to be a star similar to our own Sun some 300 light years away from our own that has a nasty habit of devou ...Written By: Anthony BouchardDEC 29, 2016Space & Astronomy
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is supposed to be NASA’s next major step forward from the Hubble Space Teles ...Written By: Anthony BouchardDEC 28, 2016Space & Astronomy
You may be very familiar with Sunspots, which are dark parts of the Sun that tend to be associated with solar winds beca ...Written By: Anthony BouchardDEC 27, 2016Space & Astronomy
At the beginning of December, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) discovered an excessively-large coronal hole ...Written By: Anthony BouchardDEC 25, 2016Space & Astronomy
Have you ever wondered what’s going to happen to the Earth in the distant future of the Solar System? You’re ...Written By: Anthony BouchardDEC 22, 2016Technology
Getting a deep enough look into the depths of space where all of the known exoplanets are is a tough task, but new advan ...Written By: Anthony BouchardDEC 16, 2016Space & Astronomy
Using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, researchers have spotted a beautifully tangled mess about 150 million light y ...Written By: Anthony BouchardDEC 14, 2016Infographics
With the recent passing of the great John Glenn, a man who will forever be remembered as the first American to orbit the ...DEC 12, 2016Space & Astronomy
The Milky Way, our very own galaxy, is not alone in space. There are as many as 50 companions orbiting our own galaxy, a ...Written By: Anthony BouchardDEC 11, 2016Space & Astronomy
When you think about the universe today, you probably think about an infinitely-expanding dark bubble filled with light ...Written By: Anthony BouchardDEC 09, 2016Space & Astronomy
There are a ton of stars in the universe, so many in fact that we can’t really count them all, but the ones we are ...Written By: Anthony BouchardDEC 08, 2016Space & Astronomy
Quasars are really interesting celestial bodies that scientists still don’t fully understand because of how diffic ...Written By: Anthony BouchardNOV 29, 2016Space & Astronomy
It’s no real mystery how stars in space form, but perhaps what still is a mystery is how those supermassive stars ...Written By: Anthony BouchardNOV 22, 2016Space & Astronomy
One of the most instrumental things astronomers use in the ongoing search for extraterrestrial life are radio signals. S ...Written By: Anthony BouchardNOV 21, 2016Space & Astronomy
The internet was going wild this weekend after NASA’s STEREO satellites reportedly spotted a weird round object pa ...Written By: Anthony BouchardNOV 17, 2016Space & Astronomy
Astronomers had the rare opportunity to view the photons from a source of gamma ray emission from an explosion that happ ...Written By: Anthony BouchardNOV 15, 2016Space & Astronomy
Using the MUSE instrument on the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope, international astronomers h ...Written By: Anthony BouchardNOV 13, 2016Space & Astronomy
Astronomers have spent many days and nights mapping out the traces of hydrogen gas in our Milky Way galaxy, and have fin ...Written By: Anthony BouchardNOV 09, 2016Space & Astronomy
The closest star system to Earth’s own is the Alpha Centauri system, which is just over four light years away. Ast ...Written By: Anthony BouchardNOV 07, 2016Space & Astronomy
NASA currently relies on the Hubble Space Telescope to observe the cosmos, but the next generation of space observation ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 27, 2016Space & Astronomy
While the Juno probe is investigating the conditions surrounding the neighborhood of Jupiter and the Cassini probe is sp ...Written By: Anthony Bouchard
JAN 08, 2017
Space & Astronomy
Fast radio bursts, also known as FRBs, are seemingly coming from everywhere in space these days, and astronomers are ver
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JAN 06, 2017
Space & Astronomy
One of the types of exoplanets that stick out most to astronomers who study the curious and distant heavens are hot, gas
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 30, 2016
Space & Astronomy
A new study into the distant star systems that we discover and observe with the Kepler space telescope and more suggests
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 29, 2016
Space & Astronomy
There appears to be a star similar to our own Sun some 300 light years away from our own that has a nasty habit of devou
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 29, 2016
Space & Astronomy
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is supposed to be NASA’s next major step forward from the Hubble Space Teles
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 28, 2016
Space & Astronomy
You may be very familiar with Sunspots, which are dark parts of the Sun that tend to be associated with solar winds beca
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 27, 2016
Space & Astronomy
At the beginning of December, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) discovered an excessively-large coronal hole
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 25, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Have you ever wondered what’s going to happen to the Earth in the distant future of the Solar System? You’re
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 22, 2016
Technology
Getting a deep enough look into the depths of space where all of the known exoplanets are is a tough task, but new advan
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 16, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, researchers have spotted a beautifully tangled mess about 150 million light y
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 14, 2016
Infographics
With the recent passing of the great John Glenn, a man who will forever be remembered as the first American to orbit the
...
DEC 12, 2016
Space & Astronomy
The Milky Way, our very own galaxy, is not alone in space. There are as many as 50 companions orbiting our own galaxy, a
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 11, 2016
Space & Astronomy
When you think about the universe today, you probably think about an infinitely-expanding dark bubble filled with light
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 09, 2016
Space & Astronomy
There are a ton of stars in the universe, so many in fact that we can’t really count them all, but the ones we are
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 08, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Quasars are really interesting celestial bodies that scientists still don’t fully understand because of how diffic
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 29, 2016
Space & Astronomy
It’s no real mystery how stars in space form, but perhaps what still is a mystery is how those supermassive stars
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 22, 2016
Space & Astronomy
One of the most instrumental things astronomers use in the ongoing search for extraterrestrial life are radio signals. S
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 21, 2016
Space & Astronomy
The internet was going wild this weekend after NASA’s STEREO satellites reportedly spotted a weird round object pa
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 17, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Astronomers had the rare opportunity to view the photons from a source of gamma ray emission from an explosion that happ
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 15, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Using the MUSE instrument on the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope, international astronomers h
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 13, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Astronomers have spent many days and nights mapping out the traces of hydrogen gas in our Milky Way galaxy, and have fin
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 09, 2016
Space & Astronomy
The closest star system to Earth’s own is the Alpha Centauri system, which is just over four light years away. Ast
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 07, 2016
Space & Astronomy
NASA currently relies on the Hubble Space Telescope to observe the cosmos, but the next generation of space observation
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 27, 2016
Space & Astronomy
While the Juno probe is investigating the conditions surrounding the neighborhood of Jupiter and the Cassini probe is sp
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard