Archives for July 2007
Update
Published on 31 Jul 2007 at 9:15 pm.
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I’m still here. I am in the middle of a series of posts, but I haven’t posted anything in a few days, so I figure that my regular readers might be wondering what’s up. I’ve been very busy, with a trip out of town. So, I’ve got a backlog of papers to grade. Also, I’ve been dealing […]
The VLA
Published on 27 Jul 2007 at 10:34 am.
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My next choice for one of the Seven Wonders of Astronomy is another radio observatory. This one is different, though, from Arecibo. Instead of a single large telescope, the Very Large Array, near Socorro, New Mexico, is a collection of 27 separate radio telescope antennae.
The Very Large Array (VLA) is operated by the National Radio […]
Yerkes Observatory
Published on 26 Jul 2007 at 12:44 pm.
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Near Williams Bay, Wisconsin, right near the shores of Lake Geneva is Yerkes Observatory, owned and operated by the University of Chicago. The Yerkes Observatory is famous for housing the 40-inch Yerkes Refractor, the largest refracting telescope ever put into service, and for a while the largest telescope of any sort in operation in […]
Arecibo Observatory
Published on 25 Jul 2007 at 11:59 pm.
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Filed under astronomy, observatories, radio astronomy, wonders.
The National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center, aka the Arecibo Observatory, is the site of the largest single dish radio telescope (or any other telescope, for that matter) on Earth, and I wrote about it once before. The facility is located just outside of the town of Arecibo, in Puerto Rico. The telescope’s dish […]
The Hubble Space Telescope
Published on 23 Jul 2007 at 10:28 pm.
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Filed under astronomy, space telescopes, wonders.
My first choice for one of the Seven Wonders of Astronomy has got to be the Hubble Space Telescope. The HST has been one of the premier instruments of astronomy since its launch in 1990. It wasn’t the first telescope in space, nor is it the only one up there right now. […]
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Seven Wonders of Astronomy
Published on 22 Jul 2007 at 8:13 pm.
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A couple weeks ago, I posted about the New Seven Wonders of the World, and I offered my suggestions for Seven Wonders of Space Exploration. That series seemed well received, so but a couple of comments led me to think that I should probably have a follow-up series on the Seven Wonders of Astronomy. […]
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60 and counting …
Published on 21 Jul 2007 at 11:16 am.
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A recent JPL news release announced the discovery of a 60th moon for the planet Saturn. There’s only four more to go to put Saturn into first place for the number of moons! (Jupiter has 63 known moons.) Now, granted, a number of these moons still need to be officially confirmed, and […]
