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82Galileo and the Telescope: How 400 Years Ago Galileo Changed the World
Galileo, an Italian professor of mathematics, did not invent the telescope. No one knows for sure who the first inventor was. But this new device spread quickly across Europe. At first it was more of a parlor...
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86Planetary Nebulae Imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope
Planetary Nebula is a huge misnomer. It has nothing to do with planets. They are not visible through the naked eye. They were originally named in the 18th century when astronomers looking through the small...
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72Astronomy for Kids and Children
Kids love anything to do with space – whether it’s cartoons, astronauts, little green men or even the fantastic pictures taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. But it can be difficult trying to move their...
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77Space Shuttle Retirement
The time for NASA space shuttle retirement is at hand. After almost 30 years, NASA will retire the space shuttles and send the remaining spacecraft to museums. The final shuttle flight is now scheduled for...
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72The Hubble Space Telescope: Astronomers Eye in the Sky
Astronomers dreamed of a telescope in space or an eye in the sky for many decades. The Hubble Space Telescope was the result of those dreams. In 1973 NASA selected a team to design the telescope and its...
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59Telescope Guide: Your Eye Versus Astrophotos!
This is a direct quote from a friend of mine who had joined me during an observing session recently. It was his first look at a deep sky object through a telescope and he was surprised at the gray-green...
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48Hubble Space Telescope
Hubble is a most crucial telescope. It deployed on April 25, 1990 by the shuttle, Discovery, the NASA Hubble Space Telescope is a giant observatory aboard a spacecraft that can see the universe using visible,...
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74Galaxies Imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope
A galaxy is a system of an enormous collection of stars – up to a trillion or more individual stars or suns, dust and gas held together by gravity. Each galaxy belongs to a larger cluster or supercluster. ...
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74The Big Bang AND Genesis; Evolution AND Genesis
Image courtesy of NASA. Ever since Charles Darwin returned from his island adventure on the good ship Beagle and penned his book on natural selection, fundamentalist of science and faith have been arguing...
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77One hundred years of discoveries: Gravity
A dark wallpaper, filled with tiny bright spots, and occasionally the Moon. That's the universe for most people. If you're reading this, you probably know that the universe is much more complicated than it looks like at a naked eye glance.
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