They Went Deeper In Space Than The Hubble

If you haven’t heard a lot about the ESO telescope here is some more background from wikipedia:

The European Southern Observatory (ESO, formally: European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere; French: Observatoire européen austral) is a 16-nation intergovernmental research organisation for astronomy. Created in 1962, ESO has provided astronomers with state-of-the-art research facilities and access to the southern sky. The organisation employs about 730 staff members and receives annual member state contributions of approximately €131 million.[1] Its observatories are located in northern Chile.

ESO has built and operated some of the largest and most technologically advanced telescopes. These include the New Technology Telescope, an early pioneer in the use of active optics, and the Very Large Telescope (VLT), which consists of four individual telescopes, each with a primary mirror 8.2 metre across, and four smaller auxiliary telescopes. The Atacama Large Millimeter Arrayobserves the universe in the millimetre and submillimetre wavelength ranges, and is the world’s largest ground-based astronomy project to date. It was completed in March 2013 in an international collaboration by Europe (represented by ESO), North America, East Asia and Chile.

There is actually yet another huge telescope configuration being built in China right now.  What will the ESO or any of these enormous telescopes find next?

 



31 Comments

  1. Brian Wolf said:

    That’s really cool. But instead of pointing it at distant empty space why don’t they point it at nearby stars/galaxies that some scientists say might have intelligent life(or be good candidates for intelligent life)?

  2. Casey Segrest said:

    Maybe the spin is stopped by a de-spin mechanism. Perhaps the yo-yo de spin or some other type. The rocket slow, stops and returns to earth by….. Gravity.

  3. Augustus J Palaza said:

    Yea sure! Maybe you’re naive…..you can hear it hit something. Sounds like glass, when you hit a window. Explain gravity and why it would stop a rocket?

  4. Casey Segrest said:

    That have and do. That’s why they think they are good candidates in the first place. You still can’t see in the planetary level of other solar systems because they are very small in comparison. Same goes for our local planets.

  5. Brian Wolf said:

    Well where are the pics of those? To my knowledge all they do is calculate light waves to see if stars have planets. And with the light waves they can tell what the main gas of the planet is. I have yet to see any earth like planets in the Goldilocks zone in any pics.

  6. Casey Segrest said:

    They find the planets by the light from stars dimming slightly from the planets transiting across the star. The light they analyze are from pics or time lapse video. The pics of the galaxies are large pics but are of galaxies that are very large. 10-100k light years in diameter. The stars and planets are so much smaller. Its like saying why can’t we see a grain of sand on a beach 1000 miles away with a telescope. All you can see is the whole beach.

  7. Casey Segrest said:

    The sound is the mechanism activating. It is rocket science so I wouldn’t expect you to understand. Gravity is always turned on and when the rockets stops firing there is no force to overpower gravity. So it slows, stops, returns.

  8. Augustus J Palaza said:

    Yes of course Casey. I wouldn’t have a clue,but you would? It seems you will say anything to makes sense of it. Yes it is a mechanism that abruptly stops the rocket!!! Hmmmmmm….nice try
    Firmament!!!!

  9. Augustus J Palaza said:

    You think indoctrination is education…! Who are you kidding dopey. …yes videos are just as much learning tools as your molded and manipulated textbooks dumbass!!! You’re a clown

  10. Luis Regna said:

    There was an area of empty space that they didn’t point anything at for 30 years.
    Then they did and found a whole lot of things there when they thought there was nothing.

    Soo…..

  11. Luis Regna said:

    Also casey lol

    They find the planets from red shift and star wobble as well. Not just light since most of the time it is so far away all they can see is the star and nothing else.

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