Light detected by the Hubble telescope and NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope is believed to have come from the most distant ga... ...rs.Scientists combined data from the Hubble space telescope with NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope t...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/11/17/Hubble-May-Have-Spotted-Most-Distant-Galaxy-Ever/
Doris Ekblad-Olson, 82, of Colorado is the first person to receive CentraSight, an experimental optical implant: Ekblad-Olson suffers from "wet" macular degeneration, an end-stage form of the common, chronic disease, wh...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/07/20/surgery-turns-womans-eye-into-a-telescope/
The 18th century telescope above, found in an excavation in Amsterdam,... ...5 inches (80 to 140 millimeters), the telescopes were made using cattle metatarsal bone. "Thi... ..."It's a nice shape to make these telescopes from,...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/03/26/bone-telescope/(vimeo link) The Paranal Observatory is a Very... ...eo link) The Paranal Observatory is a Very Large Telescope on Cerro Paranal mountain in the Atacama desert o...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/03/05/astronomers-paradise/(vimeo link) Get a good look at the workings of the Keck Observatory atop atop Mauna Kea volcano in Hawai'i. I can't say I understand what's going on, but it sure looks impressive! The topper is the infinitely appropr...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/02/17/keck-in-motion/
Astronomers have discovered a new source of meteor showers, very likely from a comet, that may be coming to an Earth near you. While explaining why we shouldn't panic at the news, Dr. Phil Plait gives us a great analogy...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/07/28/a-future-close-encounter/(vimeo link) The footage is from a webcam mounted outside the CFHT astronomical observatory in Hawaii (another view of it from a different webcam can be found here; sadly, both webcams are on Mauna Kea, not Haleakala)....
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/06/30/big-bubble-over-hawaii/
Duncan Kitchin is a stargazer and a Doctor Who... ...and a Doctor Who fan. He also has a rather large telescope that's too big to easily take inside and back out... ...and back out often. So he built a TARDIS box as a telescope shed! One side comes off, and the rest rolls away... ...away on wheels. When Kitch...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/06/22/tardis-telescope-cover/
Image: NSF/B. GudbjartssonWhat's worth hundreds of millions of dollars and located under thousands of feet of ice in the South Pole? No, it's not the lair of an evil scientist - rather, it's the IceCube, a wonderfully na...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/01/02/icecube-neutrino-detector/
Photo: Art VerduzcoPsst! Wanna win your very own Monkey drawing by Adam "Ape Lad" Koford? Here's your chance - but first, the 'splanation by Art Verduzco, whose photo was featured in National Geographic Magazin...
http://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/10/caption-monkey-65-scopin-bulldog/
