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Why space telescopes are amazing
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
|---|---|
| Author | Rigby, Jane R. |
| Copyright Year | 2012 |
| Description | One of humanity's best ideas has been to put telescopes in space. The dark stillness of space allows telescopes to perform much better than they can on even the darkest and clearest of Earth's mountaintops. In addition, from space we can detect colors of light, like X-rays and gamma rays, that are blocked by the Earth's atmosphere I'll talk about NASA's team of great observatories: the Hubble Space Telescope, Spitzer Space Telescope, and Chandra X-ray Observatory} and how they've worked together to answer key questions: When did the stars form? Is there really dark matter? Is the universe really expanding ever faster and faster? |
| File Size | 20115 |
| Page Count | 1 |
| File Format | |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_20120012870 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t5s80c933 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 2012-05-22 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Astronomy Gamma Rays Earth Atmosphere X Rays Dark Matter Hubble Space Telescope Telescopes Space Infrared Telescope Facility Universe Spaceborne Telescopes Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
