|
The array of technical equipment that has been employed in recent years to study the universe includes many great innovations such as the Hubble Space Telescope and the Sunrise Telescope. These have greatly advanced our knowledge of our own solar system and the wider universe. However, as was demonstrated in early December, simple equipment still [...]
It is hard for most people to comprehend the immense scale of the Milky Way galaxy that is home to our Solar System. Our Sun is only one of the estimated 100 to 400 billion stars in this galaxy and this may give some indication of its size. However the truly gigantic proportions of the [...]
The Hubble Space telescope’s newest camera is already filling in gaps in astronomers’ understanding of events previously too distant and remote to be studied accurately. The Wide Field Camera 3, or WFC3, was installed in May of this year and was expected to become the Hubble’s new primary instrument. With a higher resolution and wider [...]