Telescopes

2011 looks like a great year for Astronomical and Cosmological research as another important detector (dare I say telescope – for want of a better word) came online: The construction of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory was completed at the South Pole in Antarctica on December 18, 2010. This scientific milestone marks completion of the world’s

Nature published a free PDF about the wonderful successor to Hubble: The James Web Space Telescope – download it with no registration required: http://www.nature.com/news/2010/101027/pdf/4671028a.pdf Great download. Also this week – a great composite photo of a Quasar (3C 186) about 8 billion LYs has been released by the Chandra team – this too is worth

As well as looking through either my Meade ETX-125 or my 8” Saxon or my astronomical binoculars, the next best thing is visiting telescope sites within Australia.  I also like visiting tracking stations as well – and there are so many of those, many operated by Nasa and the Australian government. I’ve been to most