by admin | Feb 4, 2021 | News
For the project’s upcoming fifth set of surveys, known as the SDSS-V, plug plates are being replaced by 500 tiny robot arms, each holding fiber tips that patrol a small area of the telescope’s focal …Powered by...
by admin | Feb 3, 2021 | News
The robots mark a new chapter for the SDSS. For 10 years much of its time went to the study of dark energy, the mysterious force that is accelerating the universe’s expansion. The SDSS prised apart …Powered by...
by admin | Jan 31, 2021 | News
Astronomy owes George Ellery Hale and the Palomar Observatory a great debt of gratitude for persevering with the construction of a telescope that forever changed cosmology.Powered by...
by admin | Jan 28, 2021 | News
a substance on the moon made mostly of volcanic glass beads formed during ancient explosive eruptions. Now that you know all these astronomy facts, see how you fare with these science trivia questions …Powered by...
by admin | Jan 28, 2021 | News
The Wurdi Youang Aboriginal site could be 10,000 years old, making it the world’s first astronomical observatory.Powered by...