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  • Telescopes - National Geographic Magazine

    Cosmic Vision A new generation of giant telescopes will carry the eye to the edge of the universe. Hale adaptive optics laser shoots 56 miles up and produces sharper and more detailed views. National Geographic Magazine, Timothy Ferris "When you start stargazing with a... more

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  • Rated by Janopus on Jun 25, 7:41am

    I remember when the Hale telescope was the ultimate. New technology has changed telescopes dramatically, and people are captivated. Interesting that for an academic discipline that had no too much practical applications, there are astronomy departments in most major universities in the US. Timothy Ferris has written a number of books on astronomy; I bought "Galaxies" years ago ... enough to fill a child at any age with wonder for a lifetime. Especially mysterious are the galaxies with perpendicular jets, almost beyond human understanding, but some few astro-physicists have managed to make sense of it. check out the image of M51 from the ESA's new Herschel telescope located at "L2" beyond the moon. http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/object/index.cfm?fobjectid=45075 -j

  • Rated by TapwaterJ on Jun 23, 9:52am

    Cosmic Vision A new generation of giant telescopes will carry the eye to the edge of the universe. Hale adaptive optics laser shoots 56 miles up and produces sharper and more detailed views. National Geographic Magazine, Timothy Ferris "When you start stargazing with a telescope, two experiences typically ensue. First, you are astonished by the view--Saturn's golden rings, star clusters glittering like jewelry on black velvet, galaxies aglow with gentle starlight older than the human species--and by the realization that we and our world are part of this gigantic system. Second, you soon want a bigger telescope. Galileo, who first trained a telescope on the night sky 400 years ago this fall, pioneered this two-step program. First, he marveled at what he could see. Galileo's telescope revealed so many previously invisible stars that when he tried to map all of them in just one constellation, Orion, he gave up, confessing that he was "overwhelmed by the vast quantity of stars." He saw mountains on the moon--in contradiction to the prevailing orthodoxy, which declared that all celestial objects were made of an unearthly "ether." He charted four bright satellites as they bustled around Jupiter like planets in a miniature solar system, something that critics of the Copernican sun-centered cosmology had dismissed as physically impossible. Evidently the Earth was a small part of a big universe, not a big part of a small one." The Galileo Legacy: Science and Religion are Not Compatible Why Evolution is True Vatican's Celestial Eye, Seeking Not Angels But Data Vatican Observatory Research Group The Vatican observatory at Castel Gandolfo, the pope's summer residence, in 1946. ~ ~ ~