Telescopes
A telescope is an optical instrument using lenses, curved mirrors, or a combination of both to observe distant objects, or various devices used to observe distant objects by their emission, absorption, or reflection of electromagnetic radiation. The first known practical telescopes were refracting telescopes invented in the Netherlands at the beginning of the 17th century, by using glass lenses. They were used for both terrestrial applications and astronomy. The reflecting telescope, which uses mirrors to collect and focus light, was invented within a few decades of the first refracting telescope. In the 20th century, many new types of telescopes were …
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MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 October 2024 English
Through detailed analyses of nineteenth-century spirit photography, horror films, ghost-hunting reality television, and the viral internet phenomenon “Slender Man,” Poetics of the Paranormal shows how the figure of the ghost …
instantaneously, visual technologies such as pho- tography, telescopes, microscopes, and X-ray photography brought …
CIGI: Centre for International Governance Innovation · 27 August 2024 English
the bulk of the world’s population and the vast Today, many nations of the Global South have majority of youths, nations in the Global South feel recognized the significance of …
education in Space space exploration and advanced telescopes for astronomy lessons (see Table 2 for details) …
Alberta Teachers' Association · 19 April 2024 English
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UAP: University of Alberta Press · 4 April 2024 English
That Audible Slippage invokes a poetics of active listening and environmental sound to investigate the ways in which we both hear and fail to hear insufficiency, loss, incompleteness, and other …
destiny33 Last night in the observatory the massive telescopes sat mute while a graduate student described the …
RSC: Royal Society of Canada · 5 December 2023 French
2 La Société royale du Canada la sociéTé royale du canada La Société a été constituée en 1883 en vertu d’une loi du Parlement du Canada et a pour mission …
de mettre au point une nouvelle génération de télescopes millimétriques et à longueur d’onde radio, notamment …
RSC: Royal Society of Canada · 5 December 2023 English
After rigorous evaluation and review of their accomplishments, leading individuals may be elected to one of the Society’s three Academies—the Academy of Arts and Humanities, the Academy of Social Sciences, …
generation of millimeter and radio wavelength telescopes—notably CHIME and the South Pole Telescope. He …
AIC: Agricultural Institute of Canada · 29 November 2023 English
The revolutionary Savings and Credit Cooperative Society (SACCO) is increasingly putting land rights in the hands of women and facilitating access to the tools needed to build climate-resilient farming and …
sometimes working as technicians or operating telescopes and all kinds of STEM related things. Over time …
RSC: Royal Society of Canada · 1 November 2023 English
After rigorous evaluation and review of their accomplishments, leading individuals may be elected to one of the Society’s three Academies—the Academy of Arts and Humanities, the Academy of Social Sciences, …
generation of millimeter and radio wavelength telescopes—notably CHIME and the South Pole Telescope. He …
Wilson Center Canada · 3 July 2023 English
Although academic and non-profit sectors are the primary drivers of advancements in tools for open science, the federal government is inextricably linked to open science in the United States, from …
National Aeronautics and Space parts to ensure telescopes are inexpensive and 18+ teams around the world … supplemented with educational lessons for finished telescopes reported modifications or science project that …
CIDP: Centre for International and Defense Policy · 10 March 2023 English
The result was the formation of the United Nations and in particular Article 2(4), which prohibited “the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of …
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