Light and waves in general have many practical applications. They are used in solar panels to produce electricity, in solar furnaces to produce heat or in image amplifiers to make…
Discussing computers, computers are of course used to reconstruct the images recorded by observatories, whether terrestrial or orbital, space probes as well as to build images from the radio signals…
In a few years, radio astronomers will also have access to a new generation radio telescope, the Square Kilometer Array (Square Kilometer Square or SKA) being built in Australia and…
Astronautics
Astronautics covers an extremely wide range of scientific and technical studies, from the chemistry of propellant mixtures (pergols), the study of materials and fluid mechanics to experiments in space biology,…
EHT, Event Horizon Telescope
The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) is a set of radio telescopes scattered all over the world and linked by interferometry, a VLBI designed to obtain a high-resolution image of the…
Of smaller size but which remains imposing and of different design, let us quote also the radio-telescope of Nançay of the CNRS installed in the Cher in France put in…
Radioastronomy
It has been known since the discovery of Heinrich Hertz in 1887 that radio waves are of the same nature as light waves. In particular they propagate in a vacuum…