World of powerful astronomical telescopes. Includes both operational and those under construction

1. TELESCOPES GAZING THE INFINITY

3. REFRACTING TELESCOPE

5. REFLECTING TELESCOPE 2.5m Mt. WILSON

6. MIRROR

7. MOUNT PALOMER OBSERVATORY CALIFORNIA

8. Housing 5 telescopes

9. WILSON 60’’ 1908

10. WILSON 100’’ 1917

11. HALE 200”/ 5m 1949

12. SPIC AND SPAN Washing the mirror

13. Three million light years away…..

14. 2008 SUPER NOVAE

15. Mt. PALOMER OBSERVATORY

16. SALT - SAUTH AFRICAN LARGE TELESCOPE THE PRIDE OF AFRICA

22. HUBBLE THE FIRST SPACE TELESCOPE

23. SPITZER INFRA RED SPACE TELESCOPE

24. CHANDRA AN X RAY TELESCOPE IN SPACE

25. VERY LARGE ARRAY RADIO TELESCOPE, NEW MEXICO

28. Keck observatory, Mauna kea, Hawaii - Two 10m telescopes

30. Keck at night

32. VLT Four 8m telescopes - Cerro Paranal, Atacama, Chile

33. Calibration Making artificial stars by exciting Na atoms with laser beams

34. Interior of Antu, the Sun

35. The Long Haul

36. Resolution – one milli arc second Completed in 2006, it is 4 billion times powerful than unaided eyes

38. Allen Telescope Array (One Hectare Telescope) San Francisco, California

39. Andromeda - in visible light and the radio image

40. M33 Pinwheel Galaxy

42. SETI – Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence

44. E ELT European Extremely Large Telescope A 42m telescope coming up in Cerro Armazones, Chile

45. OWL – Overwhelmingly Large Telescope A 100m Telescope, 1500 times powerful than Hubble

46. VERITAS – Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System gamma ray telescopes

47. Fermi’s Large Area Telescope

48. Detected by Fermi’s Large Area Telescope Vela Pulsar

49. Pulsar Map by Fermi Telescope

50. ARECIBO RADIO TELESCOPE (300m) Largest single dish telescope Puerto Rico

51. To Mr. Alien, M 13 25,000 l.y Numbers 1 -10 Atomic No: H, C, N, O, P (DNA) Formulas for sugars and bases in DNA The double helix structure of DNA Human figure, height and the world population The Solar system Arecibo dish and its dimension

52. Quasar (Quasi Stellar Radio Source) – view by Hubble

53. Quasar- 10 billion light years away View by Chandra

54. Quasar starburst in infra red

55. Antennae galaxies star burst

56. NGC 1569 starburst