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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 19, 2016Space & Astronomy
For the next month, sky gazers will get the opportunity see a rare event in the sky just before the crack of dawn each m ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJAN 17, 2016Space & Astronomy
A supernova is a rare event where a star nearing the end of its life explodes into a massive burst of bright light. Some ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJAN 17, 2016Space & Astronomy
When the American Astronomical Society met recently in Florida, there was a great deal of attention surrounding a partic ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimJAN 11, 2016Space & Astronomy
NASA is on a mission to protect the Earth from future dangers of asteroid and comet impacts, and as a part of this movem ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJAN 09, 2016Space & Astronomy
In a very notable event related to astronomy, a black hole has been observed emitting visible light with just a basic 20 ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJAN 06, 2016Chemistry & Physics
Until recently astronomers thought only a small percentage of stars have strong magnetic fields, but a new way to probe ...Written By: Futurity (futurity.org)JAN 05, 2016Space & Astronomy
It’s not every day that you get to see two galaxies collide somewhere in the middle of the universe. It’s a ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJAN 02, 2016Videos
Space exploration in 2015 was far from empty-handed. We learned a lot about various plants in our solar system last year ...Written By: Anthony BouchardDEC 17, 2015Space & Astronomy
In a recent rare opportunity, scientists have managed to, for the first time, capture a predicted supernova in outer spa ...Written By: Anthony BouchardDEC 04, 2015Space & Astronomy
There have been a lot of discoveries made far and near in our universe by NASA’s Kepler space telescope. The disco ...Written By: Anthony BouchardDEC 03, 2015Space & Astronomy
Scientists are paying close attention to the HD 106906 system, a relatively distant and young system in which lies a you ...Written By: Anthony BouchardNOV 25, 2015Space & Astronomy
In China, the world’s largest radio telescope, dubbed the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) p ...Written By: Anthony BouchardNOV 13, 2015Space & Astronomy
The word pulsar is short for pulsating radio star, and it’s a phenomenon that occurs in space when a neutron star ...Written By: Anthony BouchardNOV 11, 2015Space & Astronomy
Any time that scientists discover the existence of a new exoplanet, whether it’s close or nearby, it piques intere ...Written By: Anthony BouchardNOV 01, 2015Space & Astronomy
NASA sends a lot of equipment into space to try and learn more about the formation of the universe. Whether the secrets ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 31, 2015Videos
There are two kinds of people in this world: 1) those that believe we're in a universe, where the only universe is the o ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 30, 2015Space & Astronomy
Outer space is one of the most fascinating things right above our heads, and yet, we know very little about it. Nonethel ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 30, 2015Videos
Nature magazine reports that scientists have discovered a piece of space debris that is set to enter Earth's atmosphere ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimOCT 27, 2015Space & Astronomy
In a rare event this week, sky gazers will be able to see three aligned planets in the Eastern skies at night amongst th ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 23, 2015Space & Astronomy
Although NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is beyond Pluto now, the spacecraft continues to send back images and info ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 22, 2015Space & Astronomy
As you may have read, or watched recently, as in yesterday’s video “Is An Alien Megastructure Blocking The L ...Written By: Andrew J. DunlopOCT 20, 2015Space & Astronomy
NASA has announced that a huge asteroid called 2015 TB145 will fly by the planet Earth within 1.3 lunar distances on Hal ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 15, 2015Space & Astronomy
Astronomers are incredibly interested in data accumulated by NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope as of late. Scientists ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 15, 2015Videos
It's basic science that light can be bent. Eyeglasses bend light so that images can be clearer to those don't have 20/20 ...Written By: Brenda Kelley Kim
JAN 19, 2016
Space & Astronomy
For the next month, sky gazers will get the opportunity see a rare event in the sky just before the crack of dawn each m
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JAN 17, 2016
Space & Astronomy
A supernova is a rare event where a star nearing the end of its life explodes into a massive burst of bright light. Some
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JAN 17, 2016
Space & Astronomy
When the American Astronomical Society met recently in Florida, there was a great deal of attention surrounding a partic
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
JAN 11, 2016
Space & Astronomy
NASA is on a mission to protect the Earth from future dangers of asteroid and comet impacts, and as a part of this movem
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JAN 09, 2016
Space & Astronomy
In a very notable event related to astronomy, a black hole has been observed emitting visible light with just a basic 20
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JAN 06, 2016
Chemistry & Physics
Until recently astronomers thought only a small percentage of stars have strong magnetic fields, but a new way to probe
...
Written By:
Futurity (futurity.org)
JAN 05, 2016
Space & Astronomy
It’s not every day that you get to see two galaxies collide somewhere in the middle of the universe. It’s a
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JAN 02, 2016
Videos
Space exploration in 2015 was far from empty-handed. We learned a lot about various plants in our solar system last year
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 17, 2015
Space & Astronomy
In a recent rare opportunity, scientists have managed to, for the first time, capture a predicted supernova in outer spa
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 04, 2015
Space & Astronomy
There have been a lot of discoveries made far and near in our universe by NASA’s Kepler space telescope. The disco
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 03, 2015
Space & Astronomy
Scientists are paying close attention to the HD 106906 system, a relatively distant and young system in which lies a you
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 25, 2015
Space & Astronomy
In China, the world’s largest radio telescope, dubbed the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) p
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 13, 2015
Space & Astronomy
The word pulsar is short for pulsating radio star, and it’s a phenomenon that occurs in space when a neutron star
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 11, 2015
Space & Astronomy
Any time that scientists discover the existence of a new exoplanet, whether it’s close or nearby, it piques intere
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 01, 2015
Space & Astronomy
NASA sends a lot of equipment into space to try and learn more about the formation of the universe. Whether the secrets
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 31, 2015
Videos
There are two kinds of people in this world: 1) those that believe we're in a universe, where the only universe is the o
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 30, 2015
Space & Astronomy
Outer space is one of the most fascinating things right above our heads, and yet, we know very little about it. Nonethel
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 30, 2015
Videos
Nature magazine reports that scientists have discovered a piece of space debris that is set to enter Earth's atmosphere
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
OCT 27, 2015
Space & Astronomy
In a rare event this week, sky gazers will be able to see three aligned planets in the Eastern skies at night amongst th
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 23, 2015
Space & Astronomy
Although NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is beyond Pluto now, the spacecraft continues to send back images and info
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 22, 2015
Space & Astronomy
As you may have read, or watched recently, as in yesterday’s video “Is An Alien Megastructure Blocking The L
...
Written By:
Andrew J. Dunlop
OCT 20, 2015
Space & Astronomy
NASA has announced that a huge asteroid called 2015 TB145 will fly by the planet Earth within 1.3 lunar distances on Hal
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 15, 2015
Space & Astronomy
Astronomers are incredibly interested in data accumulated by NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope as of late. Scientists
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 15, 2015
Videos
It's basic science that light can be bent. Eyeglasses bend light so that images can be clearer to those don't have 20/20
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim