epub |eng | 2008-05-01 | Author:Stefan Seip

2-Inch Adapter This adapter threads onto the T-ring on one side and the focuser of your telescope on the other. IR/UV Blocking Filter, Coma Corrector (If Required): If you are ...

epub |eng | | Author:Nicky Jenner

The birth of Phobos and Deimos Firstly, and perhaps most famously, is the idea that Phobos and Deimos aren’t really related to Mars at all: they’re actually adopted asteroids that ...

epub |eng | | Author:Carrie Nugent

6 My Favorite Telescope Most asteroid hunters use telescopes sensitive to the wavelengths of light that our eyes can see. But there’s one asteroid-hunting telescope that uses a different type ...

epub |eng | 2016-10-03 | Author:Mike Massimino

With my copilot, Snoopy, July 1969. Backyard adventures in space. Credit 1 Controlling the robot arm in my lab at MIT, with a 1980s hairstyle. Credit 2 With Mom and ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2016-09-11 | Author:Tristan Gooley [Gooley, Tristan]

Wave diffraction through a narrow gap. A narrow gap gives the most dramatic demonstration of wave diffraction, but it’s actually happening whenever any waves pass obstacles. If you hide behind ...

epub |eng | | Author:Gerrit Verschuur

9.5 Novae The word nova means ‘new star.’ From time to time a new star seen with the naked eye does appear in our heavens. Such an event occurred in ...

epub |eng | 2016-11-02 | Author:Dava Sobel

PART THREE In the Depths Above I saw in the stars a chance to observe phenomena beyond terrestrial scope. Nothing seemed impossible in those early days; we were going to ...

epub |eng | 2013-05-09 | Author:Joanne Baker [Baker, Joanne]

timeline AD 1897 J.J. Thomson discovers the electron 1913 Bohr proposes electrons orbit an atomic nucleus 1926 Schrödinger devises his wave equation 26 Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle states ...

epub |eng | | Author:Anton Vamplew [Anton Vamplew]

* * * MAGNITUDE 3.65 * * * SIZE 36’ * * * DISTANCE IN LIGHT-YEARS 17,000 * * * This is omega Centauri – ‘That’s a star!’ I hear ...

epub |eng | 2009-04-26 | Author:Robert Gendler

The Pacman Nebula Translucent pillars of gas point toward the hot stars that power the Pacman Nebula (NGC 281). Radiation emitted by the stars illuminates the gas clouds but also ...

epub |eng | 2009-03-24 | Author:Owen Gingerich

Herein was fulfilled one of the most touching of prophecies. Years before, the opponents of Copernicus had said to him, "If your doctrines were true, Venus would show phases like ...

epub |eng | 2014-03-12 | Author:Thierry Legault

1. Make sure the details that appear are real and are not artifacts 2. Warn the viewers of the image that some features may not be real and that it ...

epub |eng | | Author:Martin Rees [Rees, Martin]

THE TUNING OF THE INITIAL EXPANSION Ω may not be exactly one, but it is now at least 0.3. At first sight, this may not seem to indicate fine tuning. ...

epub |eng | | Author:Phil Simpson

epub |eng | | Author:Waltham, David