But it wasn't until NASA's Galileo spacecraft approached the Jovian system in December 1995 that the gas giant finally had a guest stay for any significant length of time. Galileo was the first spacecraft to orbit Jupiter and made substantial discoveries about the gas giant and its moons. T...
The crew of the first entirely-private orbital space mission will include the second oldest person to launch into space, the second Israeli in space, the 11th Canadian to fly into space and the first former NASA astronaut to return to the International Space Station, the company organizing the...
Beyond the planet Neptune, there is a dwarf planet named Humea. In 2005, telescopes at the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii discovered two moons orbiting Humea. The inner moon was named after the goddess of the sea, Namaka. 87. Natsuki Natsuki comes from 菜, meaning vegetables and green...
Each nation's designated star for naming is visible from that country, and is sufficiently bright to be observed through small telescopes. The respective National Committees, following the methodology and guidelines set up by the IAU100 NameExoWorlds Steering Committee, were the bodies responsible for...
noun(n.) A reflector of polished metal, especially one used in reflecting telescopes. See Speculum metal, below. noun(n.) An instrument for dilating certain passages of the body, and throwing light within them, thus facilitating examination or surgical operations. ...
In order to achieve this aim, the mission proposes to fly a satellite with a focal plane of up to 34 minitelescopes, each containing four large-area back-illuminated CCDs to provide ultrahigh-precision photometry. If successful, the satellite will have nearly 0.9 m2 of image sensors and will...
The birth of stars takes place inside dense molecular clouds and is therefore difficult to observe with optical telescopes. Yet some stars form at the edge... W Kundt - 《Astrophysics & Space Science》 被引量: 14发表: 1984年 Chemical Evolution of QSOs and Their Host Galaxies Estimates of ...
Mackay, professor of image science in the Institute of Astronomy at Cambridge in England, and his team are building an instrument for ground-based optical telescopes that will produce higher-resolution images than those captured by space telescopes. The Mackay team instrument will deliver much highe...
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Since then the task of discovering Uranus' moons has fallen to theHubble Space Telescopeand improved ground-based telescopes. This is no mean feat as these bodies are extremely dark, "blacker than asphalt" according to NASA, are located 1.8 billion miles (2.9 billion km) away from the sun,...