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Using balloons to see Dark Matter

... so Richard Massey from Durham University has developed his own approach. He is using a helium balloon to carry a ... bored waiting and said, "Wouldn't it be nice to have our own satellite, our own telescope in space?" unfortunately, in these times of ...

Parkes radio telescope viewed from the visitor's area.

Developing Radio Telescope Receivers

... of devices.  If each of those devices have their own piece of readout line, their own piece of readout equipment then the wiring, simply, the ...

The Very Large Array at Socorro, New Mexico, United States.

South Africa and the Square Kilometre Array

... South African SKA bid, visited London and met up with our own Chris Smith. Bernie -   It will be made up of two ...

Figure 1: The Andromeda Galaxy

The ALMA Telescope, Solar Orbiter, Autistic Mice and Chivalrous Crickets.

... first whilst they waited outside, increasing their own risk of predation and putting their own lives at risk. But as a reward, these males got to mate ...

Figure 3: Mars. This image illustrates the amount of detail that can be generated from the Hubble telescope. It captures details only 16 km across, even though it is operating at 68 million km from the planet.

Fact Impact - Mars

... Greek mythology. But they're much smaller moons than our own, measuring less than 25 km across. They orbit so close to ...