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Popular Mechanics
June 25, 2009
Lisa Merolla |
High-Tech Telescopes Yield New Galactic Photos: Gallery Space photos from advanced telescopes provide new views of the cosmos.   |
Information Today
May 15, 2008 |
Microsoft Launches WorldWide Telescope WorldWide Telescope is a web application that brings together imagery from the best ground- and space-based observatories across the world to allow people to easily explore the night sky through their computers. |
Searcher
September 2011
David Mattison |
Searching for the Stars: Cosmic Views and Databases While amateur astronomers continue to play an important role in the field and are supported by numerous clubs, associations, and their peers, I have primarily examined resources originating from government and academic research environments. |
Popular Mechanics
January 23, 2009
Andrew Moseman |
The 5 Most Powerful Telescopes, and 5 That Will Define the Future of Astronomy Today's best telescopes are astounding feats -- and astronomers are improving them constantly. |
Geotimes
October 2007 |
Hubble Sees Evolving Galaxies Researchers at the Space Telescope Science Institute recently compiled more than 500 images taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to reveal a tapestry-style image of at least 50,000 galaxies in a small stretch of sky near the Big Dipper. |
Wired
November 2002
Richard Martin |
The Planet Seekers Giant ground-based telescopes and adaptive optics have brought a new age in astronomy. Now the field's brightest stars are racing to take the first photograph of another world. |
Wired
November 2001 |
Verge Researchers avoided the technical and financial obstacles to building the world's most powerful stargazer by networking four 8.2-meter and three 1.8-meter scopes into an eye 20 times stronger than any standalone and 100 times more powerful than the Hubble... |
Popular Mechanics
May 15, 2009
Joe Pappalardo |
The Future of 5 Telescopes in Space This week has been an active one for earthlings' quest to understand the universe. Here is the big news on five telescopes in the sky. |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2009
Anna Bogdanowicz |
NASA Planet Hunter to Search Out Other Earths The Kepler satellite, scheduled to launch this month, will spend more than three years hunting for planets that might support life |
Chemistry World
December 2009
Jon Cartright |
Reading between the lines Since its emergence in the mid 19th century, spectroscopy has become the most important tool in astronomy, and in recent years there has been no end to its new discoveries. |
Popular Mechanics
November 2008
Toby Jorrin |
New Earthbound Telescopes Will Be Hundreds of Times Sharper Than Hubble The $45 million array of telescopes will reveal enlightening details of stars and black holes. |
Fast Company
September 2008
Robert Scoble |
Microsoft Worldwide Telescope vs. Google Sky How Microsoft and Google's battle for the stars illuminates their competing strategies for the future of tech and advertising. |
Popular Mechanics
March 6, 2009
Mark Wolverton |
Can KEPLER Help Us Find Earth's Twin? With the latest universe-gazing technology, KEPLER (along with Hubble and the most advanced ground-based telescopes) will give extrasolar planet hunters a boost in the search for Earth-like planets. |
Geotimes
September 2007 |
Geomedia On the Web: Stellarium... Galaxy Zoo... |
Wired
June 2001
Oliver Morton |
Shadow Science Looking for Earth-like planets outside the solar system? Bill Borucki's cheap little spacecraft can help you find a few hundred, fast... |
BusinessWeek
March 26, 2007
Kate Murphy |
Celestial Sightseeing Astro tourism - to glimpse eclipses, meteor showers, and comets around the planet - is taking off. |
IEEE Spectrum
July 2007
Michael Dumiak |
A Telescope Takes Flight A landmark moment in the exploration of the deep cosmos occurred recently. A powerful flying telescope, SOFIA, made its first checkout flights, having survived a bureaucratic near-death experience only a year ago. |
IEEE Spectrum
February 2005
Jean Kumagai |
Craig Nance: Engineer to the Stars As far back as he can remember, Craig Nance has loved two things: astronomy and electronics. So as the facility engineer for the world's largest optical/infrared telescopes, he is a happy man indeed. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
August 2004
Ben Ames |
Astronomers Need Adaptive Optics for 30-Meter Telescope Space-based telescopes do not have to use adaptive optics to correct for peering through the Earth's atmosphere; the biggest advances in space-telescope technology come from the mirrors, which rely on near-perfect calibration and lightweight materials to catch maximum radiation. |
IEEE Spectrum
January 2008
Joshua J. Romero |
Searching the Sky Image-recognition software for astronomy pictures brings professional and amateur astronomers together. |
Popular Mechanics
December 10, 2009
Joe Pappalardo |
What NASA's WISE Space Mapper Will Look for in the Sky Hunting for brown dwarf stars, crashing galaxies, and asteroids. |
Science News
May 23, 2009
David H. DeVorkin |
Enjoy The Indelible Experience Of Emulating Galileo As a reader of Science News, you don't have to be told to go outside some night and look through a telescope at Mars, Saturn or the moon. |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2010
Bikkannavar & Redding |
Software for Optical Systems Spells the End of Blur NASA software that calculates optical aberrations will sharpen images from space and could redefine perfect vision for humans |
Popular Mechanics
April 2, 2009 |
Star Party: 100 Hours of Astronomy At a Telescope Near You Starting April 2, there will be 100 hours of telescope-centered events around the world. Here is a list of U.S. events, by State, for April 2 - 5, 2009. |
Popular Mechanics
November 2009
Logan Ward |
10 Most Brilliant Innovators of 2009: Kepler Space Telescope The Kepler telescope -- a 15-foot-long, $600 million tool for finding Earth-like planets -- captured its first image in April. |
Popular Mechanics
May 14, 2008 |
NASA Spots 'Warm Corpse' of Galaxy's Youngest Supernova: Could It Explain Origins of Life? (With Photos!) NASA announced today that it has found the Milky Way's youngest supernova remnant. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
September 2005
Ben Ames |
General Dynamics to build antennas for ALMA radio telescope Defense contractors are helping build the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) telescope that will allow astronomers from around the world see galaxies out to the edge of the universe, and stars and planets in their formative stages. |
Smithsonian
October 2006
Robert Irion |
The Planet Hunters Never mind the demotion of Pluto to a dwarf planet. Astronomers have found about 200 planets orbiting other stars, and they say it's only a matter of time before they discover another Earth. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
April 2009 |
CCD Image Sensors From e2v Launched Aboard NASA Kepler Star-Monitoring Spacecraft Engineers at e2v Technologies are providing the CCD imaging sensor for the NASA Kepler spacecraft to monitor stars in Earth's galaxy. |
InternetNews
July 5, 2005
Roy Mark |
NASA'S Comet Collision Explodes in 'Net Traffic Deep Impact's spectacular collision with the comet Tempel 1 resulted in an explosion of record traffic to the NASA Web site to see how it looked. |
Science News
May 6, 2000 |
A Hubble Decade To celebrate the Hubble Space Telescope's 10th anniversary, the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Md., has created a new Web site devoted to the Earth-orbiting telescope and its spectacular images.... |
Scientific American
December 2005
W. Wayt Gibbs |
Breaking the Mold As the glass cools on his latest giant mirror, Roger Angel keeps pushing telescope design. His next one might even find Earth-like planets around other stars |
InternetNews
August 23, 2007
Gene Hirschel |
For Google, Not Even The Sky is Off Limits The Google Earth Sky feature may keep us on Google Earth longer. |
Popular Mechanics
October 24, 2008
Andrew Moseman |
Scientists Fixing Hubble Contend With Antiquated Computers NASA scientists trying to find out what went wrong during last week's repair of the Hubble Space Telescope find themselves dealing with 486 processors and other outdated computer technology. |
IEEE Spectrum
January 2013
Rachel Courtland |
Gaia Telescope Will Map the Milky Way The European Space Agency project will change how astronomers view our galaxy |
IEEE Spectrum
November 2006
Monte Ross |
The New Search for E.T. If extraterrestrials are trying to communicate with us, they're probably using lasers, not radio waves. |
Popular Mechanics
November 19, 2009
Stephen Ornes |
This Is Not Your Grade School Solar System: Gallery What has changed in solar system imagery over the past few decades and what we can learn from it |
Wired
April 2001
Tom McNichol |
Beyond Cool NASA cost-cutters want to kill a pioneering probe to the ice-cold edge of the solar system. First they have to reckon with the Pluto Underground... |
Smithsonian
November 2005
Don Moser |
35 Who Made a Difference: John Dobson He is the father of sidewalk astronomy, the designer of a portable mount that supports his large, inexpensive telescopes, and, perhaps, astronomy's greatest cheerleader, and he has brought the farthest stars to the man on the street. |
Science News
April 1, 2006 |
From the March 28, 1936, issue Thaw-saturated earth forced Eastern rivers to overflow... Gigantic stellar explosion great event of astronomy... Three new planetary nebulae discovered in Milky Way... |
HHMI Bulletin
Aug 2011
Amber Dance |
The Night Sky In his free time, biologist Fred Eiserling photographed faraway galaxies and nebulae measuring light-years across -- a hobby he continues to pursue today. |
Popular Mechanics
January 7, 2010
Adam Hadhazy |
Kepler's Hunt for Earths Shows Progress at Space Conference Scientists for NASA's exoplanet-hunting Kepler mission report that the orbiting space telescope has nabbed five new worlds, the first several of many that astronomers hope it will eventually discover. |
Wired
June 23, 2008
Michael D. Lemonick |
Watching the Skies: Space Is Really Big -- But Not Too Big to Map The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope will be the first telescope to take images of the entire. |
Wired
February 25, 2008
Patrick di Justo |
Four Online Telescopes Serve the Stars to Interstellar Paparazzi Urban astro-nerds, rejoice! The smog and lights of the city will obscure your view of the heavens no more. |
IEEE Spectrum
October 2012 |
The Cosmological Supercomputer How the Bolshoi simulation evolves the universe all over again |
| AskMen.com |
NASA Studying The Sun The most advanced solar observatory ever built rocketed into space Thursday on a five-year quest to shed light on Earth's star. |
Popular Mechanics
July 2007
Noah Shachtman |
How NASA's New Telescope Chases Planets NASA is launching its first-ever planet-hunting mission next year, sending the Kepler spacecraft on a quest to find 1000 more planets -- and 50 new Earths. |
Chemistry World
September 21, 2015
Matthew Gunther |
Milky Way supernovae may help explain fluorine's origin Observations suggest that neutrinos from exploding stars may stimulate fluorine production. |
Salon.com
December 2, 1999
William Speed Weed |
Master of the universe With the existence of six new planets announced just this week, Geoffrey Marcy is racking up "extrasolar" discoveries like Mark McGwire racks up homers. |
PC Magazine
May 17, 2006
Sebastian Rupley |
Light Up The Sky, ET The search for other Earth-like planets, and extraterrestrial life, is heading in new directions... A small way to detect cancer... |
