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This unit looks at how telescopes and spectrographs are designed to improve our ability to observe the universe. You will examine how different technologies have been developed over the last four hundred years to enable us to look deep into space. This study unit is just one of many that can be found on LearningSpace, part of OpenLearn, a collection of open educational resources from The Open University. Published in ePub 2.0.1 format, some feature such as audio, video and linked PDF are not ...
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Putting YOU at the center of our universe. LIVE on YouTube FRIDAYS 10AM PST. Welcome to Sky-Watcher’s official ”What’s Up?” Podcast! Featuring product announcements and in-depth overviews for some of the amateur astronomy industry’s most popular gear like our EQ6-R Pro mount, Esprit series ED refractors, and the Star Adventurer star tracker. We also feature monthly astronomical observing and imaging guides, special guest interviews with industry experts and ambassadors (even a NASA astronaut ...
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Five minutes at the end of each week explores the big and the small questions in astronomy, cosmology, and space science. Hosted by Kechil Kirkham, no subject is too big or too small, and experts are regularly brought on board to illuminate and excite. Cape Town is the place to be for astronomy, with some of the largest telescopes in the world housed or being built not too far away. Looking Up takes advantage of the shoals of scientists and engineers working on the planet’s most advanced ast ...
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March 8th, 1971, Madison Square Garden, New York, USA. A small, illuminated square of canvas. Camera lenses point from every direction, the world is watching. In the surrounding seats an unlikely mix of spectators rub shoulders - the cream of Hollywood, music stars, gangsters, pimps and politicians. Outside touts are making a killing, asking astronomical prices for the hottest ticket in town. In order to gain the best view in the house, legendary singer Frank Sinatra has become an accredited ...
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Purists and traditionalists insist that companies like Ferrari continue to build only anachronistic two-seat coupes and roadsters even while drivers increasingly demand four-door practicality and hatchback flexibility of crossover SUVs.
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Electron microscopy has existed for nearly a century, but a record-breaking modern iteration finally achieved what physicists have waited decades to seefor the first time, a transmission electron microscope is capturing an electron with such clarity they can see its individual components.
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While NASA and Boeing engineers swear they are nearing a decision on how to best return Starliner crew members Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams to Earth, the astronauts apparently have had plenty to do in the meantime.
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Designed by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak in 1976, the Apple-1 (also known as the Apple Computer 1 or simply Apple I) marked the first PC sold with a fully assembled motherboard pre-installed inside it.
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Donor heart recipients and their doctors may soon have as much as double the standard amount of time to complete life-saving surgeries thanks to a new device dubbed HOPE. An extended time period not only could allow for more time to find feasible organ matches , but also increase the geographical range for potential transplant recipients.…
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A newly discovered tarantula living in the forests of Arizonas Chiricahua Mountains can withstand high elevations and frigid wintersbut humanitys advance on the region could already be threatening its existence.
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