Posted on 02/24/2016 5:09:08 PM PST by Gamecock
An Australian telescope used to broadcast live vision of man's first steps on the moon in 1969 has found hundreds of new galaxies hidden behind the Milky Way by using an innovative receiver that measures radio waves.
Scientists at the Parkes telescope, 355 km (220 miles) west of Sydney, said they had detected 883 galaxies, a third of which had never been seen before. The findings were reported in the latest issue of Astronomical Journal under the title 'The Parkes HI Zone of Avoidance Survey'.
"Hundreds of new galaxies were discovered, using the same telescope that was used to broadcast the TV pictures from Apollo 11," said Lister Staveley-Smith, a professor at the University of Western Australia's International Center for Radio Astronomy Research.
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Ping Worthy?
Based on the mid-90s Hubble Telescope Deep Field image, it was estimated that the universe is so dense that a grain of sand held at arm’s length would block out approximately 3,500 galaxies. A thumb, about a million. In any direction.
To be clearer..
It received the broadcast from the Moon and re-broadcast it.
And then we lost it all. The romance and drive to be a great nation
” A society grows great when old men plant trees for the shade they will never know all”
GASP!!! You mean Neil Armstrong didn’t land in a TV studio?
thanks for the memories. teenage me, that was the best television program ever broadcast.
We don’t need dark matter to understand the big bang. We need to account for all the regular matter in the universe.
On the dark side of the Way.
dark matter lives
The NASA money was diverted to welfare, to build a ‘Great Society’.
The media’s idiotic meme was “Why are we spending all that money in space when we need it here?”
Now all that money has been thrown away on consumer spending (the media getting a ten percent cut) and there is no growth in all the world’s economies instead of an expanding off planet economy.
Hooray for the media!
That explains all of our woes.
That's astounding!
I think this was the same radio telescope that was in the movie “The Dish”- back in 2000- good movie.
Just following orders from Moscow.
Can I ask where that quote is from?
Thanks!
A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.
This proverb is from the Greece. One of the oldest civilizations in the world is Greek civilization. Greek civilization has always involved itself in spreading the values of democracy and in encouraging free thinking. This has resulted in the production of many wise men like Socrates, Plato and Aristotle in the world.
Socrates has always insisted honesty as a basic virtue and also in questioning every belief which does not sound rational.
The saying that the greatness of a society is achieved when old men plant trees whose shade they may not make use of… is indicative of the unselfish character of the society. A society becomes great when the people become responsible and unselfish.
When a man plants a tree he always expects to gain something from the tree in the form of fruits and shade. But when an old man plants a tree he knows well that he will not live see the plant grow up to bear fruits, or enjoy its shade, still he does it so that his future generation will be benefited by it. This unselfish behavior is a sign of the greatness of a society.
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