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The smallest of the Kuiper Belt Objects remain elusive for all the searches attempted over the past few years. Finding some would help explain a number of theories related to the solar system's formation and evolution. Since the icy ring of frozen bodies known as the Kuiper Belt was discovered beyond Neptun... |
4 October 2008
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Although some scientists celebrate 400 years since the telescope was first invented, today, others prefer to wait until 2009, the officially declared International Year of Astronomy. This further proves the controversy on the exact date of the creation of the device.According to some experts, the first real telescope... |
2 October 2008
10:33 GMT |
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A few days ago, NASA officials announced that the recent mishap that affected the Hubble Space Telescope on Saturday, September 27th, prevented the servicing mission scheduled for October 14th from taking place. Instead, the mission is currently moved to next year, until the problem is dealt with.The Hubble trouble l... |
1 October 2008
09:34 GMT |
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The happy owners of HTC's Touch Diamond Pocket PC might get even happier after finding out that their precious handset can be improved when it comes to photography related performances. This is not done by a ROM update or anything like that, but thanks to a new telescope especially created for the Touch Diamond.... |
27 August 2008
22:46 GMT |
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While the iPhone is a superb piece of work, some features, such as the phone's camera, are pretty poor for the standards the device imposes, as a smartphone. However, if you are starting to regret having gone with the iPhone because the camera is poor, think different... a lot more different.The guys at Mobile.B... |
19 August 2008
05:05 GMT |
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Most of the light provided by the light source posted behind liquid crystal display panels never even reaches the eyes of the viewer. Light must pass through individual pixels whose brightness levels are controlled by small liquid crystals that modify their transparency according to the electric signal input. Therefo... |
23 July 2008
04:43 GMT |
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Traditional glass mirrors used in telescope manufacturing are very expensive and extremely hard to build, not to mention that they weigh a 'ton' and are incredibly difficult to maneuver. And then there's always the risk that once completed, they may not turn out to be perfect for the job (remember Hubb... |
2 June 2008
06:31 GMT |
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The Hubble Space Telescope, currently operated by the NASA/ESA collaboration, celebrates 18 years since it was launched into space. In order to mark this moment, the Hubble collaboration is now launching the vastest amount of individual images ever released at once for public use - 59 new images - presenting dramatic... |
24 April 2008
10:42 GMT |
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The most powerful ground based telescope in the world, the Large Binocular Telescope located on Mount Graham, equipped with two 8.4 meter mirrors and the only operational telescope functioning in binocular light, has recently released its first three images featuring a galaxy more than 102 million light years away fr... |
6 March 2008
04:36 GMT |
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I'm sure many mobile users that own a camera phone would often want their devices to pack a more evolved camera. Even if we now have phones with 5 Megapixels and 3x optical zoom that manage to offer very good photos, their quality cannot be compared yet with that obtained with professional cameras.To solve this ... |
19 February 2008
05:17 GMT |
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Researchers have always wanted better and bigger tools to explore the immensity of the universe. Bigger telescopes, for example, can be used to obtain higher resolution pictures of extremely remote galaxies and stars, to observe and better understand how the early universe was like. And despite the levels of federal ... |
15 November 2007
07:43 GMT |
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During a landmark test, the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), together with a team of research partners have successfully launched a solar telescope to an altitude of ...120,000 feet, meaning almost 40.000 meters. The craziest part is for that they used a balloon larger than a Boeing 747 jumbo jet. Giv... |
24 October 2007
03:39 GMT |
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A great obstacle has been overcome: for the first time, astronomers from the California Institute of Technology and the University of Cambridge have obtained detailed space pictures from Earth, using a new camera that delivers more accurate images of stars and nebulae than even the Hubble Space Telescope.Pictures tak... |
5 September 2007
04:11 GMT |
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These new tiny telescopes will not help people to see to the stars, but at least will save them from blindness. This could be so when it comes to advanced macular degeneration, the main factor of age-related blindness and starting its development usually after 55 years. The new optical prosthetics significantly impro... |
17 August 2007
04:36 GMT |
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August will be a good month for skywatchers around the world, as the most important meteor shower of the year will put an impressive show, with dozens of shooting stars being expected each hour in the night sky.The best thing about the annual Perseid meteor shower is the fact that the Moon - space bane of meteor watc... |
13 July 2007
02:46 GMT |
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Space telescopes observing the Sun have provided invaluable information on various aspects of our governing star, like its atmospheric composition and events, chemical and physical structure, evolution and ultimate fate, but they are facing a difficult problem.They literally go blind in time from looking at the Sun ... |
11 July 2007
09:41 GMT |
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The world's largest telescope will make its first observations this week, in a "first light" ceremony, after 17 years of construction. Although not fully completed, it will be able to take its first look at the sky on July 13, so its makers are not at all superstitious.Gran Telescopio Canarias, or GTC, sometime... |
10 July 2007
11:06 GMT |
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The golden age of discovery astronomy is entering now could lead to major breakthroughs and answers to fundamental cosmology questions, like the origin of the galaxies, probably the most important of all. New telescopes and instruments, soon to be deployed could observe distant events early in the life of the univer... |
5 July 2007
05:48 GMT |
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Lenses are used to converge or diverge light in various optical and electronic devices and the first written records of the use of a lens date to Ancient Greece, in 424 BC. The optical zoom lenses in professional television cameras can have a magnification ratio as high as 100x.There are some things that a single mi... |
4 July 2007
09:48 GMT |
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Yesterday, the space shuttle Endeavour rolled out of the hangar and was taken to the vehicle assembly building at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where a fuel tank and the booster rockets were mounted on it, in preparation for the next mission, scheduled on August 7.Endeavour, one of the original five spaceships i... |
3 July 2007
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A new computer program makes it easier to identify the stars on a particular piece of the sky, thus helping astronomers do their job in less time and with higher accuracy. It works for all kinds of pictures, from those taken by large telescopes to those captured by amateur astronomers.The computer program has been d... |
28 June 2007
03:31 GMT |
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Ares V is the new Cargo Launch Vehicle under development at NASA, part of the Project Constellation, aimed to out people on the Moon, again and on Mars, for the first time. Though the rocket is still on the drawing board, scientists are thrilled about what it could carry into space."The Ares V rocket will be able to... |
27 June 2007
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The Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope, or GLAST is the next telescope built by NASA, designed to explore astrophysical and cosmological phenomena such as active galactic nuclei, pulsars, other high-energy sources, and dark matter.It will be launched on December 14, 2007, but until then, it's been subjected t... |
26 June 2007
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NASA is becoming more and more interested in future scientific applications based on the Moon. The agency asked the US National Research Council (NRC) in 2006 to advise it on what kinds of science could be tackled from the Moon and what projects should be given top priority.They liked the idea of an American astrono... |
25 June 2007
11:18 GMT |
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Lenses are used to converge or diverge light in various optical and electronic devices and the first written records of the use of a lens date to Ancient Greece, in 424 BC. The optical zoom lenses in professional television cameras can have a magnification ratio as high as 100x.A group of scientists claim to have cr... |
21 June 2007
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The Hubble Space Telescope has recently sent some very impressive pictures of two of the largest known asteroids, showing the craters and other spectacular features on the two cosmic boulders, that will soon be explored in detail by NASA's Dawn spacecraft.Hubble is a telescope in orbit around the Earth, named a... |
21 June 2007
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Finding planets orbiting stars at great distances from our solar system is not an easy job, but there seems to be many of them out there, according to recent observations. And that's a great thing, since it's actually harder than finding a needle in a hay stack. It's more like looking for a firefly fly... |
20 June 2007
11:07 GMT |
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No telescope can form a perfect image. Even if a reflecting telescope could have a perfect mirror, or a refracting telescope could have a perfect lens, the effects of aperture diffraction could still not be escaped.The blurring effect from the atmosphere is among the most important distortions that affect telescopes... |
19 June 2007
15:26 GMT |
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NASA has just released a spectacular photo of thousands of galaxies gathered in a sort of family album. This picture is a symbol of the technology being used by astronomers worldwide to capture a glimpse of the vast universe that surrounds us, and of the progress mankind has made in the last centuries. There are pro... |
19 June 2007
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Space…the final frontier! For all the natural-born astronomers out there who suffer from insomnia, Meade introduces a revolutionary way to explore the universe: the mySKY "astronomy professor". The device is an easy-to-use multi-media player designed to guide you through the night sky like no other.Meade's paten... |
6 June 2007
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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a planned space infrared observatory, intended to be a significant improvement on the aging Hubble Space Telescope, which is about to be decommissioned, after successfully serving its purpose since 1990. The agency is considering equipping the telescope with a grapple... |
1 June 2007
16:11 GMT |
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Altair is the brightest star in the constellation Aquila and the twelfth brightest star in the nighttime sky, an "A" type or white star located 17 light years away from Earth (about 99 trillion miles), one of the closest stars visible to the naked eye.Astronomers have previously photographed some of the red-giants o... |
1 June 2007
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How can astronomers perceive depth in space when determining the distance to certain mysterious bodies in and around our Milky Way galaxy? Well, using only one telescope doesn't really do the job so they use a mathematical solution that looks more like an optical illusion.Astronomers use NASA's Spitzer... |
31 May 2007
10:13 GMT |
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SETI is an acronym for Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence, the collective name for a number of organized efforts to detect Extraterrestrial life. The project aims to survey the sky to detect the existence of transmissions from a civilization on a distant planet.The institute is planning to have 42 radio astro... |
29 May 2007
07:21 GMT |
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A gigantic telescope is about to be built in Antarctica and scientists hope to be able to catch a glimpse of neutrinos, the exotic particles traveling almost at the speed of light for millions of miles through space, passing right through planets.The name of the telescope is "IceCube" because it consists of thousand... |
24 May 2007
03:37 GMT |
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A new proposition in the field of astronomical observations is getting mixed opinions. An American astronomer is proposing that we build a giant liquid-mirror telescope on the Moon, saying that it will be hundreds of times more accurate and sensitive than even the Hubble Space Telescope.Roger Angel, a member of the ... |
23 May 2007
16:36 GMT |
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Astronomers have received pictures showing two of Saturn' 27 moons, one passing in front of the other. This is considered very important for scientific calculations, as it is the only way that the mass of the moons can be approximated.With the help of the Faulkes Telescope South in Australia, astronomers observ... |
21 May 2007
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NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has delivered a spectacular image revealing the birth of new stars in the Orion galaxy, a famous constellation visible in winter from the northern hemisphere. They are the result of shockwaves that occurred 3 million years ago when a massive star exploded.The Orion constellation, a... |
19 May 2007
07:11 GMT |
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Hubble Space Telescope has just discovered a gigantic, ghostly ring of dark matter at a distance of 5 billion light-years from Earth. So far, it's the most compelling evidence of the existence of the elusive dark matter.Scientists have theorized on the existence of dark matter for some time, and they think it&#... |
16 May 2007
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Astronomers have just detected the brightest explosion of a star ever recorded, a huge new breed of supernova more than 100 times bigger than any one observed so far.The violent blast was photographed by both terrestrial telescopes and NASA's orbiting Chandra X-Ray Observatory in a galaxy far from our own Milky... |
8 May 2007
02:39 GMT |
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A new telescope array called VERITAS (Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System) is a major new ground-based gamma-ray observatory, designed to provide an in-depth examination of the universe, at a much higher level of precision than was previously available.The name also means "truth" in Latin; it is ... |
2 May 2007
05:04 GMT |
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The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is a telescope in orbit around the Earth, named after astronomer Edwin Hubble. Its position outside the Earth's atmosphere provides significant advantages over ground based telescopes - images are not blurred by the atmosphere, there is no background light scattered from the atm... |
24 April 2007
10:05 GMT |
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A galaxy (from the Greek root galakt-, meaning "milk", a reference to our own Milky Way) is a massive, gravitationally bound space system consisting of stars, an interstellar medium of gas and dust, and dark matter.Typical galaxies range from dwarfs with as few as ten million stars up to giants with one trillion sta... |
23 April 2007
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The Lyrid meteor shower will peak this weekend, in the morning of April 22 and 23. The Lyrids are a strong meteor shower lasting from April 15th to April 28th each year. The radiant of the meteor shower is located in the constellation Lyra. It peaks at April 22th. The source of the meteor shower is the periodic Com... |
20 April 2007
10:11 GMT |
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Pollution on Earth is a very real threat to all lifeforms and its negative effects on organisms are well known, so countermeasures will have to be taken, if we all want to survive on the Blue Planet as we did before.Did you known there is such thing as "intergalactic pollution"?Warm gas escaping from the clutches of... |
20 April 2007
08:43 GMT |
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The Pleiades' high visibility in the night sky has guaranteed it a special place in many cultures, both ancient and modern. In Greek mythology, they represented the Seven Sisters, while to the Vikings, they were Freyja's hens, and their name in many old European languages compares them to a hen with chicks... |
16 April 2007
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A new NASA mission planned for, with an assist from Utah State University, will send a satellite into orbit to study what are known as noctilucent clouds (night shining, in Latin), which appear to glow at night. Forming at the edge of space, they appear to be getting brighter and more frequent, raising questions as ... |
13 April 2007
08:19 GMT |
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Chandra telescope observations of the galaxy NGC 1365, a galaxy located 60 million light-years away have captured a remarkable eclipse of the supermassive black hole at its center. A dense cloud of gas passed in front of the black hole, which blocked high-energy X-rays from material close to the black hole.Just as e... |
13 April 2007
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Until now, scientists have used various techniques to detect more than 200 exoplanets. Most of these exoplanets are from five to 4,000 times more massive than Earth, and are either too hot, too cold or too much of a giant gas ball to be considered likely habitats for life. So far, no one has managed to capture an im... |
12 April 2007
08:18 GMT |
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Efforts to search for extraterrestrial intelligence have been going on for decades, and the most famous program is SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence), whose generic approach is to survey the sky, through radiotelescopes, to detect the transmissions from a civilization on a distant planet.The OSU SETI pr... |
6 April 2007
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