Blogs and articles about space
What kind of telescope do I need to see galaxies? If you want to observe galaxies — and I mean really get something out of the time you put in at the eyepiece — you have to use a telescope with an aperture of 8 inches or more. Bode’s Galaxy (M81) glows brightly enough to …
The Hubble Space Telescope makes one orbit around Earth every 95 minutes. The Hubble Space Telescope took this picture of the Tadpole Galaxy and its tail of large, bright blue star clusters. The “Hubble Ultra Deep Field” shows many galaxies far from Earth. Can you see galaxies through a telescope? Galaxies are some of the …
GS-11 astronauts received a median salary of around $65,000 in 2020. GS-12 astronauts get a boost to around $75,000. GS-13 astronauts make more like $85,000. A GS-14 astronaut can make as much as $140,000 per year. How much do NASA astronauts earn? Currently a GS-11 starts at $66,026 per year and a GS-14 can earn …
To catch a glimpse of Neptune, you’ll need a telescope of at least eight inches of aperture at about 100x to 150x magnification. With equipment like this, you’ll still need steady skies to observe this tiny bluish disc. What kind of telescope do you need to see Neptune? Neptune’s disk is visible at 200× through …