Students had questions about telescopes. Here is what we discovered.
What was the first telescope?
https://www.aip.org/history/cosmology/tools/tools-first-telescopes.htm
What did Galileo's telescope look like? Does it still exist?
http://reidsitaly.com/destinations/tuscany/florence/sights/museo_scienza.html
How is a telescope made?
http://www.madehow.com/Volume-2/Telescope.html
Can you build your own telescope?
https://stellafane.org/tm/tg/
What is the largest Earth-based telescope?
http://www.keckobservatory.org/about
Wednesday, December 9, 2015
Wednesday, December 2, 2015
Is Anybody Out there? The Search for ET
Headlines about possible alien megastructures!
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/is-a-massive-alien-megastructure-really-blocking-light-from-a-faraway-star-a6710006.html
http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/news/1819-feature15-12-Strange-Star-Likely-Swarmed-by-Comets
http://www.sentientdevelopments.com/2012/03/how-to-build-dyson-sphere-in-five.html
"Where is Everybody?" Fermi's Paradox
http://abyss.uoregon.edu/~js/cosmo/lectures/lec28.html
SETI Institure: Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence
http://www.seti.org/
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/is-a-massive-alien-megastructure-really-blocking-light-from-a-faraway-star-a6710006.html
http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/news/1819-feature15-12-Strange-Star-Likely-Swarmed-by-Comets
http://www.sentientdevelopments.com/2012/03/how-to-build-dyson-sphere-in-five.html
"Where is Everybody?" Fermi's Paradox
http://abyss.uoregon.edu/~js/cosmo/lectures/lec28.html
SETI Institure: Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence
http://www.seti.org/
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