Russian Hubble?
Recovered historical discussion from Russian Hubble?.
Anyone heard anything about this russian hubble telescope?
Any details? Supposedly 1000x sharper.
Archived source: https://web.archive.org/web/20121203223809/http://www.spacetimeandtheuniverse.com:80/general-physics/5425-russian-hubble.html
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David E. Eaton Sr.
Check here -->
Russian Space Telescope Lifts Off, Will Be Biggest Telescope Ever | Popular Science
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Tom
RadioAstron will be able to resolve celestial objects separated by an angle of 7 microarcseconds, which is 10,000 times the resolution of the Hubble Space Telescope, New Scientist notes. Scientists hope it will be able to peer at the event horizon of a black hole at the center of the galaxy M87; study radio waves emitted by water masers, which are clouds of water molecules found in galaxy discs; and study pulsars, among other missions.
RayTomes
According to my calculations that is a resolution of 0.01 mm at a distance of 300 km. If atmosphere wasn't hazy, they could count the hairs on your head. Or see big continents on planets around other stars.
SpaceCadet
But it's a radio telescope, correct? Not visible light.
grapes
Right. They're using interferometry with ground based telescopes--the space scope is actually a lot smaller than the ground based ones.
Tom
Here is a pretty nice article:
We're going to see a black hole!!! : Starts With A Bang
David E. Eaton Sr.
Thanks, tom, great article...one normally doesn't 'visualize' an astrophysicist as looking like this --> see url below, near top left side of article....
Tom
Really ... that is how I normally visualize astrophysicists.