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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 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 BouchardOCT 19, 2016Space & Astronomy
Pluto was undoubtedly the biggest part of NASA’s New Horizons mission last year, when the probe achieved its succe ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 17, 2016Space & Astronomy
We know that the universe is big – really big – and that there are a ton of galaxies out there that contain ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 14, 2016Space & Astronomy
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope found something really strange inside a star system 1,200 light years away. The host ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 11, 2016Space & Astronomy
It isn’t very often that we get the opportunity to study systems from other galaxies, considering they’re so ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 03, 2016Space & Astronomy
Using the tried and true Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have reportedly found another exoplanet orbiting two stars ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 02, 2016Space & Astronomy
Throughout the last five years, China has been working on a new radio telescope called the Five-hundred-meter Aperture S ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 28, 2016Space & Astronomy
In a nearby star system dubbed TW Hydra, astronomers are keeping their eyes on a disk formation of dust and gas particle ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 27, 2016Space & Astronomy
NASA is getting pretty excited after the space agency’s Hubble Space Telescope found what appear to be jets of wat ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 26, 2016Space & Astronomy
Although we can find exoplanets through means of the Kepler mission, and try out best to describe their qualities, such ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 21, 2016Space & Astronomy
Proxima b is believed to be an Earth-like neighbor from the Proxima Centauri system, which is around 4.25 light years aw ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 19, 2016Space & Astronomy
Astronomers are now very interested in what could be one of the slowest pulsars ever discovered, reportedly spinning tho ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 17, 2016Space & Astronomy
International astronomers based in Italy have had their eyes on a distant star cluster discovered more than four decades ...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
OCT 19, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Pluto was undoubtedly the biggest part of NASA’s New Horizons mission last year, when the probe achieved its succe
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 17, 2016
Space & Astronomy
We know that the universe is big – really big – and that there are a ton of galaxies out there that contain
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 14, 2016
Space & Astronomy
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope found something really strange inside a star system 1,200 light years away. The host
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 11, 2016
Space & Astronomy
It isn’t very often that we get the opportunity to study systems from other galaxies, considering they’re so
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 03, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Using the tried and true Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have reportedly found another exoplanet orbiting two stars
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 02, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Throughout the last five years, China has been working on a new radio telescope called the Five-hundred-meter Aperture S
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 28, 2016
Space & Astronomy
In a nearby star system dubbed TW Hydra, astronomers are keeping their eyes on a disk formation of dust and gas particle
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 27, 2016
Space & Astronomy
NASA is getting pretty excited after the space agency’s Hubble Space Telescope found what appear to be jets of wat
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 26, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Although we can find exoplanets through means of the Kepler mission, and try out best to describe their qualities, such
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 21, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Proxima b is believed to be an Earth-like neighbor from the Proxima Centauri system, which is around 4.25 light years aw
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 19, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Astronomers are now very interested in what could be one of the slowest pulsars ever discovered, reportedly spinning tho
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 17, 2016
Space & Astronomy
International astronomers based in Italy have had their eyes on a distant star cluster discovered more than four decades
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard