This post’s subject is the liquid mirror telescope. The operation, advantages and disadvantages and, some projects are shown.
Category: New technology
Organic solar panels
Organic solar panels are photovoltaic panels of third generation. They can greatly increase the competitiveness of solar energy.
“Rainbow”, the first rare earth maglev train
China has built a maglev train that uses permanent magnets made of rare earth for levitation.
Carbon nanotubes: what are they?
The carbon nanotubes are another carbon allotropic form, they have many interesting properties and promise many applications.
The first integrated laser
Was built an integrated laser in a lithium niobate substrate, for applications in telecommunications.
Self-healing materials for robots
Researchers developed self-healing gelatinous materials with salt, to be used in manipulator robots.
James Webb arrives at the final destination
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), launched on Christmas last year, arrived at Lagrange point L2 of Earth-Sun system.
The launch of James Webb telescope
The space telescope James Webb, the Hubble’s successor, will be launched soon and make observations at 13.8 billion light-years.
iRonCub: the humanoid robot with jet engines
The iRonCub was developed by the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT). A project that took many years.
The Jiuzhang 2.0 was built
Was anounced the Jiuzhang 2.0, an improvement of photonic quantum computer built last year, and billions of times faster than the predecessor.