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Space Technology. Visual (Optical) Telescopes. Reflecting – uses mirrors to gather and focus light from distant objects, can be very large Refracting – uses lenses to gather and focus light from distant objects . X-Ray Telescopes.
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Visual (Optical) Telescopes • Reflecting– uses mirrors to gather and focus light from distant objects, can be very large • Refracting– uses lenses to gather and focus light from distant objects.
X-Ray Telescopes • makes images using x-rays from space such as remnants of exploded stars. • Example: Chandra X-Ray Observatory
Gamma Ray Telescopes • makes images using gamma rays from objects such as black holes. • Example: Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (decommissioned)
Infrared Telescopes • detects infrared radiation from objects in space. • Example: Keplar , Spitzer, Webb Telescopes
Radio Telescopes • usually land based, detects radio waves from space, data displayed as graphs • Example: Arecibo, PR
Space Probes • Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 space craft - collected images of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune and their moons.
Space Probes • Galileo – Orbited Jupiter and its moons to study their atmospheres and Jupiter’s huge storms.
Space Probes • Cassini-Huygens – orbited Saturn in 2004 then detached the Huygens probe which studied the atmosphere of Titan, Saturn’s largest moon.
Space Probes • Mars Rovers Spirit and Opportunity – confirmed water had once been present on the surface of Mars (2004)
Accelerators • provide subatomic particle energies that simulate conditions in the stars and in the early history of the universe before stars. • Example: CERN and the Higgs boson particle • http://home.web.cern.ch/about/accelerators