In the last post "James Webb Space Telescope (part 1)", we said we would explain how scientists are going to get the telescope into orbit and what the telescope will do that will define this telescope for generations to come, and that is exactly what we are going to do. How are scientists getting the telescope into [...]
After two blogs,“Telescope: how it works“ and “Hubble Telescope: its purpose and progress“, to explain all about telescopes and the Hubble space telescope, we can finally reveal why so much information was needed. We would like to introduce you to the newest and most technologically advanced telescope to date, the James Webb Space Telescope. What [...]
In the last post about telescopes, “Telescope: how it works”, we explained their origins, how they work, and why we use them. We also explained that the design had a major flaw. It was designed to use light to see far away but if something is in the way, like our atmosphere, then the image [...]
Probably the most popular, well known telescope has got to be the Hubble Space Telescope. Launched in 1990, it has been orbiting the Earth in low orbit just outside of our atmosphere allowing it to explore deep space without the atmophere's interference giving extremely clear, descriptive, and detailed pictures of various events in space that were [...]
