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NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope Was Never Meant to Look at the Sun. Astronomers Tried It Anyway
A little-known chapter of the Hubble Space Telescope’s history is a reminder of the risks of looking at the sun ...
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A rare look at NASA’s next sharp-eyed space telescope
It sat on the floor just a few steps away. In another corner of the room loomed the sun shade (or “deployable aperture cover”), which will ensure the telescope can probe the cosmic darkness without ...
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Listen To The Sun, Saturn, And The Milky Way With Your Own Radio Telescope
Students from the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research combined a commercial satellite dish, a satellite finder and an Arduino, and produced a workable radio telescope. The ...
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NASA Image Reveals Jupiter As You've Never Seen It Before
In the image, Jupiter's famous Great Red Spot, which appears red in visible light, is a instead a remarkably bright shade of blue. Hubble Space Telescope ... and the sun are aligned, with Earth ...
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This video shows what could happen to your eye when you look at the sun through a telescope - and it isn't pretty
Armed with a backyard telescope and a pig's eye, British Astronomer Mark Thompson set out to learn what could happen if you stare at the sun through the lens of a telescope. After about 20 seconds ...