`Carbonite` space imager revealed
... UK small satellite manufacturer SSTL has released details of the spacecraft it launched in July, but about which it gave few details at the time. Codenamed Carbonite, the 80kg platform filled some unused mass on the rocket that put up the company's new high-resolution imaging constellation. It turns ...
... UK small satellite manufacturer SSTL has released details of the spacecraft it launched in July, but about which it gave few details at the time. Codenamed Carbonite, the 80kg platform filled some unused mass on the rocket that put up the company's new high-resolution imaging constellation. It turns ...
Glossary of Space Terms
... H 1637–Rene Descartes demonstrated that speherical lenses cannot produce pinpoints of light. He studies elliptical and hyperboloidal lenses and demonstrates that different combinations of hyperboloidal lenses or elliptical lenses will produce a pinpoint of light and a sharper image. He has a Parisia ...
... H 1637–Rene Descartes demonstrated that speherical lenses cannot produce pinpoints of light. He studies elliptical and hyperboloidal lenses and demonstrates that different combinations of hyperboloidal lenses or elliptical lenses will produce a pinpoint of light and a sharper image. He has a Parisia ...
Slide 1
... The universe includes everything that exists. This includes celestial objects such as stars and planets, plus all the matter and empty space surrounding them. ...
... The universe includes everything that exists. This includes celestial objects such as stars and planets, plus all the matter and empty space surrounding them. ...
January 2005
... days en route to Titan. Huygens will separate from Cassini at one foot per second and a spin rate of seven revolutions per minute to ensure stability during the coast and entry phase. Five days following the release of the probe, Cassini will perform a deflection maneuver. This will place the orbite ...
... days en route to Titan. Huygens will separate from Cassini at one foot per second and a spin rate of seven revolutions per minute to ensure stability during the coast and entry phase. Five days following the release of the probe, Cassini will perform a deflection maneuver. This will place the orbite ...
Terrestrial Planet (and Life) Finder
... Now estimate number of planets with life in our Galaxy (not number with intelligent, communicating life) If we leave out fi and fc (i.e. assume they are unity—all life forms develop our kind of intelligence and technology and try to communicate), we are calculating the number of life-bearing planet ...
... Now estimate number of planets with life in our Galaxy (not number with intelligent, communicating life) If we leave out fi and fc (i.e. assume they are unity—all life forms develop our kind of intelligence and technology and try to communicate), we are calculating the number of life-bearing planet ...
July - Magic Valley Astronomical Society
... UCLA, and the study's lead author. “These M-class stars, also known as red dwarfs, make excellent targets for future This article was provided by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, direct imaging of exoplanets.” California Institute of Technology, under a contract with the Young red dwarfs produce a tel ...
... UCLA, and the study's lead author. “These M-class stars, also known as red dwarfs, make excellent targets for future This article was provided by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, direct imaging of exoplanets.” California Institute of Technology, under a contract with the Young red dwarfs produce a tel ...
Report on Potential Usage of SKA1
... some of the major topics to be explored. Pulsars: Pulsars have steep spectral indices but also suffer from increased interstellar dispersive smearing at the low radio frequencies at which they are bright. Searches for new pulsars must therefore trade off between these phenomena. The SKA1-Low will be ...
... some of the major topics to be explored. Pulsars: Pulsars have steep spectral indices but also suffer from increased interstellar dispersive smearing at the low radio frequencies at which they are bright. Searches for new pulsars must therefore trade off between these phenomena. The SKA1-Low will be ...
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... EPSC Abstracts, Vol. 4, EPSC2009-490-1, 2009 European Planetary Science Congress, © Petrova et al., 2009 ...
... EPSC Abstracts, Vol. 4, EPSC2009-490-1, 2009 European Planetary Science Congress, © Petrova et al., 2009 ...
London Centre - Royal Astronomical Society of Canada
... The Texas Star Party, The Winter Star Party, solar eclipses, and other astronomical events. You can too! ...
... The Texas Star Party, The Winter Star Party, solar eclipses, and other astronomical events. You can too! ...
Name: Block______ TELESCOPES: Knowledge and Understanding
... How are visible light, radio waves, and other forms of electromagnetic radiation different from each other? How does the size of the telescope’s main lens or mirror affect its performance? III. EXPLAIN: Complete the following using appropriate scientific language (vocabulary): Why are some telescope ...
... How are visible light, radio waves, and other forms of electromagnetic radiation different from each other? How does the size of the telescope’s main lens or mirror affect its performance? III. EXPLAIN: Complete the following using appropriate scientific language (vocabulary): Why are some telescope ...
Slides
... There was most likely a disturbance caused by a supernova (an exploding star), and the resulting waves compressed the cloud causing gravity to pull the gas and dust together, thus forming a solar nebula. This caused the entire cloud to start spinning: the center having the highest angular veloci ...
... There was most likely a disturbance caused by a supernova (an exploding star), and the resulting waves compressed the cloud causing gravity to pull the gas and dust together, thus forming a solar nebula. This caused the entire cloud to start spinning: the center having the highest angular veloci ...
20081 Study Guide_77-120
... To help students understand how astronomers can infer the existence of black holes, use the example of two ice skaters holding hands and spinning in a circle. If one of the skaters were invisible, an observer could still infer that two skaters were present by observing the effect the invisible skate ...
... To help students understand how astronomers can infer the existence of black holes, use the example of two ice skaters holding hands and spinning in a circle. If one of the skaters were invisible, an observer could still infer that two skaters were present by observing the effect the invisible skate ...
X-ray observations for Plan A
... observed at "warm" temperatures (Fe XII-Fe XIV). Take images in 2 thinnest filters at 60s cadence. Transition Corona (Heliospheric Imaging) – Deep exposures of the region from the corona to several solar radii in the EUV with large loop structures. These observations will enable the connection betwe ...
... observed at "warm" temperatures (Fe XII-Fe XIV). Take images in 2 thinnest filters at 60s cadence. Transition Corona (Heliospheric Imaging) – Deep exposures of the region from the corona to several solar radii in the EUV with large loop structures. These observations will enable the connection betwe ...
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... The discovery of the mechanism of fasting and feasting process is the breakthrough that many were looking forward to and given important inputs for further theoretical understanding of these binaries. Says Dr Bhalerao: “This allows us to better understand how massive stars form, to study how binarie ...
... The discovery of the mechanism of fasting and feasting process is the breakthrough that many were looking forward to and given important inputs for further theoretical understanding of these binaries. Says Dr Bhalerao: “This allows us to better understand how massive stars form, to study how binarie ...
PH109 Exploring the Uiverse, Test #4, Spring, 1999
... b) the result of stars too massive for neutrons to support them c) condensed molecular clouds before star formation takes place d) small dark spot seen on the surface of the Sun 14. It is unlikely that astronauts will ever pass through black holes because a) they do not really exist b) they are too ...
... b) the result of stars too massive for neutrons to support them c) condensed molecular clouds before star formation takes place d) small dark spot seen on the surface of the Sun 14. It is unlikely that astronauts will ever pass through black holes because a) they do not really exist b) they are too ...
Reflecting Telescopes
... • A perfect parabolic mirror has a focal length like a lens. – All frequencies focused to the same point ...
... • A perfect parabolic mirror has a focal length like a lens. – All frequencies focused to the same point ...
Catadioptric telescopes
... Catadioptric Telescope Designs The first compound telescope was made by German astronomer Bernhard Schmidt in 1930. Its optical components are an easy-to-make spherical primary mirror and an aspherical correcting lens located at the center of curvature of the primary mirror. It had a glass correcto ...
... Catadioptric Telescope Designs The first compound telescope was made by German astronomer Bernhard Schmidt in 1930. Its optical components are an easy-to-make spherical primary mirror and an aspherical correcting lens located at the center of curvature of the primary mirror. It had a glass correcto ...
Astronomers Find Extremely Large Planet
... birthplace for most of the stars in our galaxy. “It’s surprising that these new disks are so large, given that they are found in dense clusters of young stars,” Lada says. “Naively, you would think that the gravitational interactions between such stars would tend to disrupt extremely large disks, si ...
... birthplace for most of the stars in our galaxy. “It’s surprising that these new disks are so large, given that they are found in dense clusters of young stars,” Lada says. “Naively, you would think that the gravitational interactions between such stars would tend to disrupt extremely large disks, si ...
Astronomy Today
... • Collect light for a CCD (digital camera) • Often located on remote mountaintops close to the ocean – Why might locations like that be preferable? ...
... • Collect light for a CCD (digital camera) • Often located on remote mountaintops close to the ocean – Why might locations like that be preferable? ...
The Search for Another Earth The Search for Another Earth
... Advances in data-gathering technology and analysis capabilities now provide scientists with the advanced tools and capabilities to enable this exploration of our galaxy. ...
... Advances in data-gathering technology and analysis capabilities now provide scientists with the advanced tools and capabilities to enable this exploration of our galaxy. ...
PowerPoint - Chandra X
... RXJ0822-4300, deduced from 3 Chandra images over 5 years, implies a transverse space velocity of 1,600 km/s for an estimated distance of 7,000 light years. The unusually large space velocity is consistent with the explosion center inferred from proper motions of the oxygen-rich optical filaments, an ...
... RXJ0822-4300, deduced from 3 Chandra images over 5 years, implies a transverse space velocity of 1,600 km/s for an estimated distance of 7,000 light years. The unusually large space velocity is consistent with the explosion center inferred from proper motions of the oxygen-rich optical filaments, an ...
holiday lights - Denver Astronomical Society
... the 1990s. Some people who know you’re into astronomy will be asking when they can see them “zoom across the sky.” (Providing a great teaching moment about astronomical objects.) On December 1st, C/2011, L4 PANSTARRS will be lurking way down in Scorpius at magniTHE GREAT COMET OF 1680 OVER ROTTERDA ...
... the 1990s. Some people who know you’re into astronomy will be asking when they can see them “zoom across the sky.” (Providing a great teaching moment about astronomical objects.) On December 1st, C/2011, L4 PANSTARRS will be lurking way down in Scorpius at magniTHE GREAT COMET OF 1680 OVER ROTTERDA ...
Meade® 8" and 10" LX200GPS Schmidt
... Positioning System (GPS), a satellite system that enables extremely precise communication to the telescope of the observer’s latitude and longitude, as well as local time. Integrated true-level and North electronic sensors in combination with a 16-channel GPS receiver located in the “…Viewing a 2nd- ...
... Positioning System (GPS), a satellite system that enables extremely precise communication to the telescope of the observer’s latitude and longitude, as well as local time. Integrated true-level and North electronic sensors in combination with a 16-channel GPS receiver located in the “…Viewing a 2nd- ...
A Secret Number in Astronomy
... these seem to have evolved independently(?) at many different places all over the world some 4,000 years ago. One of these places is Stonehenge, UK (Fig. 1), of which the oldest traces date back as far as 3000 B.C. The megalith’s precise orientation towards the rising Sun at summer solstice is a cle ...
... these seem to have evolved independently(?) at many different places all over the world some 4,000 years ago. One of these places is Stonehenge, UK (Fig. 1), of which the oldest traces date back as far as 3000 B.C. The megalith’s precise orientation towards the rising Sun at summer solstice is a cle ...
Spitzer Space Telescope
The Spitzer Space Telescope (SST), formerly the Space Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF), is an infrared space observatory launched in 2003. It is the fourth and final of the NASA Great Observatories program.The planned mission period was to be 2.5 years with a pre-launch expectation that the mission could extend to five or slightly more years until the onboard liquid helium supply was exhausted. This occurred on 15 May 2009. Without liquid helium to cool the telescope to the very low temperatures needed to operate, most of the instruments are no longer usable. However, the two shortest-wavelength modules of the IRAC camera are still operable with the same sensitivity as before the cryogen was exhausted, and will continue to be used in the Spitzer Warm Mission. All Spitzer data, from both the primary and warm phases, are archived at the Infrared Science Archive (IRSA).In keeping with NASA tradition, the telescope was renamed after its successful demonstration of operation, on 18 December 2003. Unlike most telescopes that are named after famous deceased astronomers by a board of scientists, the new name for SIRTF was obtained from a contest open to the general public.The contest led to the telescope being named in honor of astronomer Lyman Spitzer, who had promoted the concept of space telescopes in the 1940s. Spitzer wrote a 1946 report for RAND Corporation describing the advantages of an extraterrestrial observatory and how it could be realized with available or upcoming technology. He has been cited for his pioneering contributions to rocketry and astronomy, as well as ""his vision and leadership in articulating the advantages and benefits to be realized from the Space Telescope Program.""The US$800 million Spitzer was launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, on a Delta II 7920H ELV rocket, Monday, 25 August 2003 at 13:35:39 UTC-5 (EDT).It follows a heliocentric instead of geocentric orbit, trailing and drifting away from Earth's orbit at approximately 0.1 astronomical unit per year (a so-called ""earth-trailing"" orbit). The primary mirror is 85 centimeters (33 in) in diameter, f/12, made of beryllium and is cooled to 5.5 K (−449.77 °F). The satellite contains three instruments that allow it to perform astronomical imaging and photometry from 3 to 180 micrometers, spectroscopy from 5 to 40 micrometers, and spectrophotometry from 5 to 100 micrometers.