Welcome to Astronotes
Hello, IòÀÙm Colin, welcoming you to Astronotes, the PlanetariumòÀÙs official blog. Here you will find the latest news and views from the fascinating worlds of astronomy and space exploration. We hope you will come here to learn what is hot and exciting, profound or even weird from worlds beyond ours . So that's the introduction out of the way, now on with the Universe!-
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Telescopes and Observatories Archive
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JWST: Profile of a Master Telescope
Posted on July 25, 2014 | No CommentsIn many walks of life a single concerted effort to achieve the impossible will usually encounter opposition on all sides, however it appears that this reality is little diminished when […] -
JWST: A Giant Cyclops to Reveal the Depths of Space
Posted on June 10, 2014 | 3 CommentsWhile HSTòÀÙs successor is named after the architect of the revolutionary Apollo Moon missions, an obvious tribute to the National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationòÀÙs second administrator, James E. Webb, the […] -
ALMA: Everything You Need to Know About Europe’s Giant Eye on the Sky
Posted on April 12, 2013 | No CommentsHave you ever wished you could hop into a time machine, zip back billions of years and answer one of the age old questions that have plagued mankind from the […] -
Looking Up from the South: The Amazing European Southern Observatory
Posted on September 29, 2011 | 2 CommentsThe European Southern Observatory (ESO) is an intergovernmental research organisation for astronomy which is supported by fifteen countries. Established in 1962 it operates some of the most technologically advanced telescopes […] -
Hubble Space Telescope: Ten amazing facts you didn’t know
Posted on March 5, 2011 | 23 CommentsGleaned from NASA and Hubblesite.org, here are some facts you may not know about the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). 1.ˆàˆàˆàˆàˆà The HSTòÀÙs history is longer than you might have […]