Holmdel Horn Antenna: Where The Big Bang Was Discovered
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 26, 2023
Physicists and astronomers believe that the universe began with the Big Bang—a cataclysmic event that occurred roughly 13 billion years ago ...
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The 17th Century Astronomer Who Designed The First Steam-Powered Vehicle in History
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 20, 2022
On October 9, 1623 Ferdinand Verbiest was born in the town of Pittem (present-day Belgium). Of his early years it is only known that he stud...
Johannes Hevelius’s Moon Atlas
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 22, 2021
German astronomer Johannes Hevelius is often regarded as one of the last great astronomers to carry out major observational work without a t...
Day And Night on a Little Planet
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 2, 2016
This extraordinary image resembling a tiny planet is actually a digitally warped and stitched mosaic of a panorama captured during the cours...
The McMath-Pierce Solar Telescope
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 22, 2015
The McMath-Pierce Solar Telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona, USA, looks like a monumental piece of modern art. A great wh...
The Large Binocular Telescope
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 3, 2015
The Large Binocular Telescope (LBT) is an optical telescope located on Mount Graham at an altitude of 3,200 meters in the Pinaleno Mountains...
The Planetarium of Nagoya City Science Museum
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 27, 2015
The Nagoya City Science Museum, at the center of Nagoya City in central Japan, can be easily recognized by its enormous silver globe, called...
China is Building The World's Largest Telescope
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 5, 2015
The Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico will soon lose its title of the largest single aperture radio telescope ever constructed. The Chines...
RATAN-600, The World’s Largest Radio Telescope
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 29, 2015
RATAN-600 (short for Radio Astronomical Telescope of the Academy of Sciences) is a radio telescope located near the village of Zelenchukskay...
Green Bank: The Town With No Cell Phones, Wi-Fi or Radio
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 12, 2015
Green Bank, in Pocahontas County in West Virginia, the United States, is possibly one of the quietest residential places on earth. There is ...
Spectacular Pictures of Laser Guide Star System
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 23, 2011
Imaging stars and other heavenly bodies from earth based telescope is difficult because of the atmosphere that envelops the earth. The atmos...
The Arecibo Observatory of the SETI Project
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 16, 2010
The Arecibo Observatory is a radio telescope located close to the city of Arecibo in Puerto Rico, operated by Cornell University under coope...
