Category: telescopes

Hitting the Books: Volcanoes, mortal enemy of the mighty telescope

Post author By Randall
Post date August 15, 2020
Categories In astronomy, emily levesque, feature, hitting the books, hittingthebooks, Science, sourcebooks, Space, Tech, telescopes, the last stargazers, tomorrow, volcano

[ad_1] Every observer who’s spent any time in Chile has been through at least one small earthquake. Telescopes actually have something of an interesting quirk when it comes to these tremors: they’re pointed so incredibly carefully and kept so incredibly still that even the tiniest and earliest shake of an earthquake can show up dramatically […]

MIT scientists accidentally create the blackest material ever

Post author By Randall
Post date September 13, 2019
Categories In Art, black, blackest, carbon nanotubes, Design, gadgetry, Gadgets, material, mit, Tech, telescopes, tomorrow

[ad_1] The researchers had actually been experimenting with ways to grow CNTs on electrically conductive materials — such as aluminium — to boost their electrical and thermal properties. The color of the resulting material surprised the team, and they only realized what they had invented after they measured its optical reflectance. The discovery is currently […]