Paper On Radar Astronomy

“classified Hubble as a Cassegrain reflector, who was among the first to suggest a basic optical design.”1 The Hubble space telescope was launched and deployed in April of 1990, which “marked the most significant advance in astronomy since Galileo's telescope. Thanks to four servicing missions and more than 25 years of operation, the view of the universe and humanity's place within it has never been the same.” 2 In describing how

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Vera Cooper Rubin was born July 23, 1928 in Philadelphia, PA. Her father was Philip Cooper, an electrical engineer, and her mother Rose. She first developed an interest in astronomy at the age of 10 while stargazing from her home in Washington D.C. Her father encouraged her to follow her dreams and took her to amateur astronomer meetings. She earned her Bachelor’s degree from Vassar University in 1948 of which she was the only astronomy major that year. Later she earned her master’s from Cornell in 1950 with her masters’ thesis was controversial and centered around the possibility of bulk rotation by looking for “sideways” motion of galaxies. She finally got her Ph.D. from Georgetown University in 1954. Her doctoral

Elizabeth Gibney discusses the history of fast radio bursts and astronomer’s strategy to finding them in the universe in her article, “Fast Radio Bursts are Astronomy’s Next Big Thing.” She begins by defining fast radio bursts as “fleeting blasts of energetic cosmic radiation of unknown cause.” (Gibney) Gibney briefly reviles that even though FBRs were discovered a decade ago, the phenomenon has just recently been accepted as genuine.

Infrared and ultraviolet telescopes are also used which makes it easier to differentiate what are actually planetary nebulae.

Radio telescopes are similar to optical telescopes however they measure the radio frequency portion of the electromagnetic spectrum rather than the visible portion. We use radio telescopes to study naturally occurring radio wavelength light from stars, galaxies, black holes and other astronomical objects. In order to locate gravitational waves we are looking for oscillations in the images we see, as gravitational waves will bend light such as radio waves in alternating directions.

Primary Calibrators were set up to bounce radar waves throughout the solar system to help determine distances between objects and Earth. Secondary Calibrators were designed to determine brightness of stars from Earth. The method of brightness

The first radar- Crate in World War 2 for the military and fighter jets. The person who discovered the radar is an Austrian physicist and astronomer named Christian Johann Doppler. His discovery in 1842 was dubbed the Doppler Principle, the concept defining how radar determines speed. By the 1930s, scientists had noticed when ships passed between radio transmitters some of the signal reflected back to the source. Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt and his team build the first radar on the Doppler Principle. In light of the threat posed by Nazi Germany, Great Britain built a series of 21 radar towers.The Nazi start to attack with series of bombing raids on England.They knew that an invasion would only be successful if they could establish air superiority. The Luftwaffe had 2,400 planes and the British had 600 planes. The 21 radar towers called the Chain Home Network gave the British a decided advantage. The radar would alert the British of an incoming attack before the Nazi come. This helps the british to get ready for an attack. A British scientist named Taffy Bowen went to America to design plans for the radar.

The duality of simplicity and mystery reiterate the importance of understanding those visitors from space and time. Even common chondrites like Allende play such a significant role in raising the awareness in astronomy on one side by expanding the interest in collecting cosmic relics, but more importantly in lifting the interest and curiosity of the public in deepening the research in the astronomy field.

So many adults and young people alike are in awe of the seemingly limitless skies that are made visible on a clear night. But while we stare in wonder, without the help of space-borne telescopes, we could only imagine what threats the cosmos has to offer.

The movement of the stars in the night sky can be categorised into two different motions. The first is diurnal, and it is an astronomical term referring to the motion of the stars every 24 hours around the two celestial poles (Earth). The diurnal motion of the stars is caused by Earth’s rotation on its axis from west to east, resulting in every star moving in a circle (the diurnal circle). One sidereal day (23 hours, 56 minutes and 4.09 seconds) is the time it takes for one complete rotation. If one were to look into the night sky in the southern hemisphere, the stars would appear to rotate from east to west around the South Celestial Pole (due to the rotation of Earth). Stars are also only visible during certain times of the year, as the brightness

April 21st, 1998, almost 18 years ago, wasn’t the most eventful day in history. When researching this day, only one or two things caught my eye, one of which being that NASA had spotted a young solar system outside of ours (Today in History). It was on this day that this discovery had been released to the public. Since this information was released NASA technology has improved immensely. This will discuss how this particular solar system was discovered, also, how NASA’s technology has improved over the years.

The radial velocity method was used to detect the first exoplanet, 51 Pegasi b (51 Peg b) around a main sequence star, 51 Pegasi (51 Peg). The radial velocity method uses the variations in velocity of a star due to the gravitational pull from an exoplanet (Lissauer 2002). Furthermore the velocity isn’t measured in terms of actual speed but in terms of light based on the Doppler effect. The Doppler effect occurs when a star moves. When it moves toward us, its wavelengths of light are shortened and when a star moves away from us, its wavelengths of light are lengthened. Through the continued observation of the Doppler effect on a stars spectrum of light, the velocity of a star is inferred. Any change in a stars velocity is caused by a sufficiently massive companion, an exoplanet (Lissaeur 2002).

Once microwave radiation was discovered, studies improved on the Milky Way Galaxy. Its Doppler Shift can be used to map the motion of gas in it. Also, with radio telescopes, hydrogen gas can now be traced. When the Hubble Space Telescope was introduced in 1990, that made exploring space so much easier and more efficient. That’s how we discovered so much about our universe- including galaxies!