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A rocket carrying a telescope which will be the most powerful in space has been launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Scientists have already nicknamed the Zenit-3SB the "green" rocket because it uses kerosene and oxygen as its fuel and is environmentally friendly. The rocket developed jointly by Russia and Ukraine will propel into orbit a new generation space telescope designed to extend mankind's understanding of the forming of galaxies. This will be the first radio-telescope that Russia has put into space in more than 25 years. Scientists have chosen a highly eccentric orbit for the station to allow it to turn under the Moon's gravity to scan the sky. The 10-meter telescope will be capable of registering solar wind, quasars, black holes and neutron stars. This huge eye will be able to provide detailed images of the universe with a resolution 1,000 times sharper than America's Hubble. After a four-hour journey to orbit, the RadioAstron will connect to a control center on Earth and some time will be needed for the RadioAstron to unfold its 27 petals and make everything ready to work. Within a month or two we will start receiving the first images of the universe from space. This mission is expected to last five years.
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bovansays...it's RadioAstron
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RadioAstron
DerHasisttot>> ^bovan:
it's RadioAstron
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RadioAstron
fixed it :-)
CrosswordsIs it just the lady's accent or did they have to do some serious editing? It just seems like she gets cut off mid sentence and has the end of another sentence pasted on.
Also "...please don't judge by the size here." Hah!
rich_magnetThe title is quite misleading. Hubble is a visible/UV telescope, where this one is a radio telescope. They image completely different parts of the spectrum. Think of the comparison of the ground-based VLA and VLT telescopes: quite different instruments.
rychan>> ^rich_magnet:
The title is quite misleading. Hubble is a visible/UV telescope, where this one is a radio telescope. They image completely different parts of the spectrum. Think of the comparison of the ground-based VLA and VLT telescopes: quite different instruments.
Yeah, how can any radio telescope be remotely as sharp as a visible light telescope? At that frequency it's hard to get high angular resolution from a single dish.
eric3579The very high angular resolving power will be achieved when used in conjunction with a ground-based system of radio-telescopes and interferometrical methods, operating at wavelengths of 1.35–6.0, 18.0 and 92.0 cm. With its Earth-based companions, it will form a network able to provide detailed images of the universe at 1,000 times the resolution attainable using the Hubble Space Telescope. -wiki
>> ^rychan:
>> ^rich_magnet:
The title is quite misleading. Hubble is a visible/UV telescope, where this one is a radio telescope. They image completely different parts of the spectrum. Think of the comparison of the ground-based VLA and VLT telescopes: quite different instruments.
Yeah, how can any radio telescope be remotely as sharp as a visible light telescope? At that frequency it's hard to get high angular resolution from a single dish.
krazyetyRussians better share what they find out there
rychan>> ^eric3579:
The very high angular resolving power will be achieved when used in conjunction with a ground-based system of radio-telescopes and interferometrical methods, operating at wavelengths of 1.35–6.0, 18.0 and 92.0 cm. With its Earth-based companions, it will form a network able to provide detailed images of the universe at 1,000 times the resolution attainable using the Hubble Space Telescope. -wiki
>> ^rychan:
>> ^rich_magnet:
The title is quite misleading. Hubble is a visible/UV telescope, where this one is a radio telescope. They image completely different parts of the spectrum. Think of the comparison of the ground-based VLA and VLT telescopes: quite different instruments.
Yeah, how can any radio telescope be remotely as sharp as a visible light telescope? At that frequency it's hard to get high angular resolution from a single dish.
Ok, that's believable. But the title and summary clearly imply that this single instrument will be 1,000 times sharper than the HST.
ghark@rychan it's mentioned in the video - she says that the signal from this telescope will be combined with the signals from ones on earth to create a dish 30 times the earths diameter. Pretty impressive tbh.
RyjkyjEh... it's no James Webb...
gharkthat's 7 years away though, and works almost exclusively in infrared. In fact the shortest wavelength it can detect is red, and that's the color with the longest wavelength, so from what I can tell it wont take very good natural color images of pretty galaxies. I imagine the scientists will be able to create spectacular virtual images from the data though.
>> ^Ryjkyj:
Eh... it's no James Webb...
mxxconAlso don't forget that this report is by RT, a Russian Government-sponsored English language TV channel intended to show news from Russia Gov't point of view.
Think of them as Russia's Fox News during Republican president.
critical_dI picked up on that also, thought it was just me. The accent sounds different every few words.
>> ^Crosswords:
Is it just the lady's accent or did they have to do some serious editing? It just seems like she gets cut off mid sentence and has the end of another sentence pasted on.
Also "...please don't judge by the size here." Hah!
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