Showing posts with the label Astronomy

Holmdel Horn Antenna: Where The Big Bang Was Discovered

Oct 26, 2023

Physicists and astronomers believe that the universe began with the Big Bang—a cataclysmic event that occurred roughly 13 billion years ago ...

The 17th Century Astronomer Who Designed The First Steam-Powered Vehicle in History

Apr 20, 2022

On October 9, 1623 Ferdinand Verbiest was born in the town of Pittem (present-day Belgium). Of his early years it is only known that he stud...

Johannes Hevelius’s Moon Atlas

Nov 22, 2021

German astronomer Johannes Hevelius is often regarded as one of the last great astronomers to carry out major observational work without a t...

Day And Night on a Little Planet

Sep 2, 2016

This extraordinary image resembling a tiny planet is actually a digitally warped and stitched mosaic of a panorama captured during the cours...

The McMath-Pierce Solar Telescope

Dec 22, 2015

The McMath-Pierce Solar Telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona, USA, looks like a monumental piece of modern art. A great wh...

The Large Binocular Telescope

Nov 3, 2015

The Large Binocular Telescope (LBT) is an optical telescope located on Mount Graham at an altitude of 3,200 meters in the Pinaleno Mountains...

The Planetarium of Nagoya City Science Museum

Aug 27, 2015

The Nagoya City Science Museum, at the center of Nagoya City in central Japan, can be easily recognized by its enormous silver globe, called...

China is Building The World's Largest Telescope

Aug 5, 2015

The Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico will soon lose its title of the largest single aperture radio telescope ever constructed. The Chines...

RATAN-600, The World’s Largest Radio Telescope

Jul 29, 2015

RATAN-600 (short for Radio Astronomical Telescope of the Academy of Sciences) is a radio telescope located near the village of Zelenchukskay...

Green Bank: The Town With No Cell Phones, Wi-Fi or Radio

Jan 12, 2015

Green Bank, in Pocahontas County in West Virginia, the United States, is possibly one of the quietest residential places on earth. There is ...

Spectacular Pictures of Laser Guide Star System

Jan 23, 2011

Imaging stars and other heavenly bodies from earth based telescope is difficult because of the atmosphere that envelops the earth. The atmos...

The Arecibo Observatory of the SETI Project

Mar 16, 2010

The Arecibo Observatory is a radio telescope located close to the city of Arecibo in Puerto Rico, operated by Cornell University under coope...