The Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) is a radio telescope located at 5,100 meters above sea level, at the Llano de Chajnantor Observatory in the Atacama desert, in northern Chile, 50 kilometers to the east of San Pedro de Atacama.
credit: ESO
The Museum for the History of Science, in Oxford.
This is a 3D anaglyph - to view, wear glasses with red on the left eye, and cyan (green-blue) on the right eye.
Der bislang am weitesten entfernte Quasar SDSS J1148+5251 ist in der optischen Aufnahme des Sloan Digital Sky Survey im Bildzentrum als ein schwacher Punkt zu erkennen.
Illustration der möglichen Struktur eines Quasars. Der helle Quasar, der durch Einfall von Materie auf ein supermassives Schwarzes Loch gespeist wird, sitzt im Zentrum.
Mit freundlicher Genehmigung Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
DID THE ORIGIN OF LIFE OCCUR 13 BILLION YEARS AGO: That's the question a new radio telescope project announced today by ASTRON and IBM are looking to answer. ASTRON, one of the world's leading astronomy research organizations - and IBM will be collaborating on the design, engineering and manufacturing of customized high performance, low power consumption microprocessors which will be used in thousands of antennas spread across the globe - similar to the ones shown here. The antennas will be used to capture radio signals from deep in space as part of an effort to build the world's largest radio telescope to look at and understand the very origins of the universe.
MAGIC, das 'Major Atmospheric Gamma Imaging Cherenkov'-Teleskop, geht am 10. Oktober 2003 auf der spanischen Insel La Palma offiziell in Betrieb.
Die elektronische Kamera im Zentrum des MAGIC-Teleskops besteht aus 577 Photomultipliern und erlaubt ultrakurze Belichtungszeiten von wenigen Milliardstel Sekunden.
Mit freundlicher Genehmigung Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
From the NASA website:
EIT (Extreme ultraviolet Imaging Telescope) images the solar atmosphere at several wavelengths, and therefore, shows solar material at different temperatures. In the images taken at 304 Angstroms the bright material is at 60,000 to 80,000 degrees Kelvin. In those taken at 171, at 1 million degrees. 195 Angstrom images correspond to about 1.5 million Kelvin. 284 Angstrom, to 2 million degrees. The hotter the temperature, the higher you look in the solar atmosphere.