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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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SEP 12, 2016Space & Astronomy
The search for intelligent extraterrestrial life in our universe never ends. Scientists from SETI search far and wide to ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 06, 2016Space & Astronomy
When astronomers look for new galaxies, they’re looking for huge clusters of stars, or bright spots, where it&rsqu ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 03, 2016Space & Astronomy
Scientists have had their eyes on an exoplanet dubbed Gj 1132b that was discovered last year and seems to resemble Venus ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 28, 2016Space & Astronomy
Scientists are in awe after having discovered a very strange trans-Neptunian object (TNO) that is orbiting the Sun in a ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 18, 2016Space & Astronomy
One of the brightest objects in the universe is a supernova, which is when a start collapses in on itself at the end of ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 08, 2016Space & Astronomy
Gamma Ray Bursts (GRB) are some of the brightest and most powerful, but also some of the most misunderstood quandaries o ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 04, 2016Space & Astronomy
One of Jupiter’s moons, Io, is quite the interesting character. It turns out there are two sides to Io’s per ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUL 27, 2016Space & Astronomy
Brown dwarfs are essentially stars that fail to spark the energy needed to produce nuclear fusion. Instead of being brig ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUL 25, 2016Space & Astronomy
Space is large, and there’s almost no way we’re ever going to be able to map out the entire universe because ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUL 25, 2016Neuroscience
“My what a big brain you have!” While it’s true that the big bad wolf never said this to Little Red Ri ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimJUL 20, 2016Space & Astronomy
The universe is a rather interesting place. There are a bunch of stars, planets, random rocks, dust, and other mysteriou ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUL 15, 2016Space & Astronomy
Scientists always have their eyes in the skies. Although Neptune is the single furthest planet in our Solar System, Plut ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUL 12, 2016Space & Astronomy
China has been in the business to build the world’s largest radio telescope since 2011. We first started following ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUL 11, 2016Cell & Molecular Biology
It’s long been accepted that cephalopods – such as squids and octopuses – are unable to see color beca ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUL 02, 2016Space & Astronomy
Jupiter has long been a mystery, and that’s why when NASA’s Juno spacecraft gets close to our solar system&r ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUN 30, 2016Space & Astronomy
There are lots of different galaxy formations out there, with spiral being the most common due of the forces of gravity, ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUN 29, 2016Videos
Think you know black? Think again. Vantablack is a material that absorb nearly all light in the visual spectrum (99.965% ...JUN 28, 2016Space & Astronomy
The European Space Observatory (ESO) has captured a really stunning image of Jupiter in the infrared light spectrum with ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUN 27, 2016Space & Astronomy
NASA just can’t seem to let the old and reliable Hubble Space Telescope go. Image Credit: NASA The Un ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUN 25, 2016Space & Astronomy
Neptune is the outermost planet in our solar system, just before Pluto, which used to be a planet, but is now considered ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUN 21, 2016Space & Astronomy
Jupiter has long been a mystery. We know it’s a massive gassy planet, but lots of astronomers believe that deep do ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUN 20, 2016Space & Astronomy
As space observation technology continues to become more powerful, we are able to peer deeper into the black abyss that ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUN 19, 2016Videos
Chiral molecules are "handed" molecules that are mirror images of each other - one is a right-handed version, the other ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUN 12, 2016Space & Astronomy
It has long been a goal of astronomers too realize the achievement of taking an actual photograph of a black hole, but t ...Written By: Anthony Bouchard
SEP 12, 2016
Space & Astronomy
The search for intelligent extraterrestrial life in our universe never ends. Scientists from SETI search far and wide to
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 06, 2016
Space & Astronomy
When astronomers look for new galaxies, they’re looking for huge clusters of stars, or bright spots, where it&rsqu
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 03, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Scientists have had their eyes on an exoplanet dubbed Gj 1132b that was discovered last year and seems to resemble Venus
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 28, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Scientists are in awe after having discovered a very strange trans-Neptunian object (TNO) that is orbiting the Sun in a
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 18, 2016
Space & Astronomy
One of the brightest objects in the universe is a supernova, which is when a start collapses in on itself at the end of
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 08, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Gamma Ray Bursts (GRB) are some of the brightest and most powerful, but also some of the most misunderstood quandaries o
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 04, 2016
Space & Astronomy
One of Jupiter’s moons, Io, is quite the interesting character. It turns out there are two sides to Io’s per
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUL 27, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Brown dwarfs are essentially stars that fail to spark the energy needed to produce nuclear fusion. Instead of being brig
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUL 25, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Space is large, and there’s almost no way we’re ever going to be able to map out the entire universe because
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUL 25, 2016
Neuroscience
“My what a big brain you have!” While it’s true that the big bad wolf never said this to Little Red Ri
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
JUL 20, 2016
Space & Astronomy
The universe is a rather interesting place. There are a bunch of stars, planets, random rocks, dust, and other mysteriou
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUL 15, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Scientists always have their eyes in the skies. Although Neptune is the single furthest planet in our Solar System, Plut
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUL 12, 2016
Space & Astronomy
China has been in the business to build the world’s largest radio telescope since 2011. We first started following
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUL 11, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
It’s long been accepted that cephalopods – such as squids and octopuses – are unable to see color beca
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 02, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Jupiter has long been a mystery, and that’s why when NASA’s Juno spacecraft gets close to our solar system&r
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUN 30, 2016
Space & Astronomy
There are lots of different galaxy formations out there, with spiral being the most common due of the forces of gravity,
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUN 29, 2016
Videos
Think you know black? Think again. Vantablack is a material that absorb nearly all light in the visual spectrum (99.965%
...
JUN 28, 2016
Space & Astronomy
The European Space Observatory (ESO) has captured a really stunning image of Jupiter in the infrared light spectrum with
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUN 27, 2016
Space & Astronomy
NASA just can’t seem to let the old and reliable Hubble Space Telescope go. Image Credit: NASA The Un
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUN 25, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Neptune is the outermost planet in our solar system, just before Pluto, which used to be a planet, but is now considered
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUN 21, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Jupiter has long been a mystery. We know it’s a massive gassy planet, but lots of astronomers believe that deep do
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUN 20, 2016
Space & Astronomy
As space observation technology continues to become more powerful, we are able to peer deeper into the black abyss that
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUN 19, 2016
Videos
Chiral molecules are "handed" molecules that are mirror images of each other - one is a right-handed version, the other
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 12, 2016
Space & Astronomy
It has long been a goal of astronomers too realize the achievement of taking an actual photograph of a black hole, but t
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard