I have always thought of how well astronomers have been handling space studies and knowing about a lot of things from the sizes, color, and properties of planets, asteroids and meteoroids, to studying the comet, the solar system and the sun itself. You know astronomers will be doing a lot of jobs if they had to go to these places on their own without properly observing it first. You can also imagine the risk scientist will be putting themselves through doing research also, what do you think will happen with planetary bodies landing into the earth without proper observation and proper study, it would have been a disaster.
The Telescope
This problems have been solved, thanks to the help of Telescopes. Telescopes are equipment used to see far beyond the earth and to check out the space. It can be dated far back as 1608 and this has brought tremendous breakthrough to the space world. I will be looking at a few telescopes and how important their creation has been to the study of space and planetary bodies. Telescopes can be on placed on earth or in space, the few ones on earth are placed on mountains so they will not be facing any interference as well easy to view.
Hubble Space Telescope
Observing both infrared and ultraviolet ray, the Hubble space telescope has been NASA’s most cherished telescope sending information from space about a particular space body or object in details. The Hubble Space Telescope is a space based telescope and has helped space scientist and astronomers study the universe and how it is developing. It was used to calculate the composition of an exo-planet.
Chandra X-ray Observatory
Launched in the year 1999, this telescope is a space based telescope is as it name implies, it is used to view light in x-ray visions in space. It has been able to help view hot gasses and gas clouds in space, it also helped astronomers to observe the black holes in space.
Spitzer Space Telescope
This is another space based telescope, although it was discontinued at the beginning of the year after being functional for over 16 years when it was meant to function for only 5 years, you must say that this telescope is really one of its kind. It can be used to view infrared rays and it made a ground breaking observation, viewing seven earthlike planets around a star. This observation was done in 2018, also it was used to observe the Milky Way before it was shut down in 2020.
Telescopes have proven to be a very vital part of astronomy and although a lot of this telescopes have been of vital purposes, there are future telescopes that will help facilitate the work of astronomers and at the same time marvel humans.
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