Tag: telescope

total: 2 | displaying: 1 - 2

A Telescope Made of Moondust

0 comments
Tags: telescope moon moondust
Astronomy news // 13 July, 2008 09:59:00
image
That's the dream of Peter C. Chen, astrophysicist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. And he wants to build it using lunar dust—because that might just be the most economical approach.

Astronomers Detect First Organic Molecule on an Exoplanet

4 / 5

0 comments
Tags: exoplanet organic molecule hubble space telescope
Astronomy news // 19 March, 2008 08:03:51
 A team of astronomers led by Mark Swain of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., has made the first detection ever of an organic molecule in the atmosphere of a Jupiter-sized planet orbiting another star. The breakthrough, made with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, is an important step in eventually identifying signs of life on a planet outside our solar system.
total: 2 | displaying: 1 - 2
Updated forum topics

Advertisement

Poll: Like Our New Look?
Do you like our new Hypography look & feel?
All polls