The Observatory
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| Origin | Singapore |
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| Albums | Continuum |
| Behind These Eyes: The Catacombs Remixes | |
| Genres | Experimental Rock |
| Art Rock | |
| Electronica | |
| Indie Rock | |
| Record labels | Sony Music Entertainment |
| Columbia Records | |
| Bertelsmann Music Group | |
| Geffen Records | |
| CBS Records | |
| Official site | theobservatory.com.sg |
| Songs | 2004 |
| List | 2004 |
| 2005 | |
| Members | Bill Doss |
| Date of Reg. | |
| Date of Upd. | |
| ID | 1792613 |
About The Observatory
The Observatory is an art rock, experimental and electronica band based in Singapore, consisting largely of alumni from significant 1990s Singaporean bands. They are influential in the Singapore music scene. The band formed in 2001 and performed for the first time at the Baybeats music festival in December 2002.
Euclid telescope: First images revealed from 'dark Universe' mission
... Engineers also found some stray light was polluting pictures when The Observatory was pointed in a certain way...
'Mass killing' report in Chapel St Leonards was yoga class
... " They were on their way to The Observatory after someone had reported a mass killing in our building, having seen several people laying on the floor...
James Webb telescope image dazzles on science birthday
... It was launched on 25 December, 2021, but engineers needed six months to set up The Observatory and test all its systems...
Mayon: The people constantly fleeing a Philippine volcano
... There was a sense of anxiety in The Observatory last week...
Five killed in Israeli strike on Damascus, Syria says
... " The strike on Sunday is the deadliest Israeli attack in the Syrian capital, " said Rami Abdel Rahman, head of The Observatory...
Body found in search for University of Warwick professor
... His body was found about 5km (three miles) from The Observatory in the country s Atacama desert, police said...
Ringed Neptune captured by James Webb telescope
... The Observatory s infrared instruments highlight features not seen in such detail since the Voyager 2 probe flew past the planet in 1989...
James Webb Space Telescope hit by tiny meteorite
... The damage inflicted by the dust-sized micrometeoroid is producing a noticeable effect in The Observatory s data but is not expected to limit the mission s overall performance...
James Webb Space Telescope hit by tiny meteorite
A tiny rock fragment has hit the new James Webb Space Telescope's main mirror.
The damage inflicted by the dust-sized micrometeoroid is producing a noticeable effect in The Observatory 's data But is not expected to limit The Mission 's overall performance.
James Webb was launched in December to succeed The Revolutionary - But now ageing - Hubble Space Telescope.
Astronomers are due to release its first views of the cosmos on 12 July.
The US Space Agency Nasa said these images would be no less stunning because of what's just happened.
The Incident appears to have occurred sometime between 23 and 25 May.
Analysis indicates The Mirror segment known as C3 - One of the 18 beryllium-gold partitions that Make Up Webb's 6. 5m-wide primary reflector - was struck.
The speed at which things move through space means even the smallest particles can impart a lot of energy when colliding with another object. Webb has now been hit five times with this latest event being The Most significant.
Webb has an open design; its mirrors are not guarded by the kind of tubular baffle seen on Other Space telescopes, such as Hubble. Instead, the reflectors sit behind One giant sunshield that allows them to maintain the stable, cold temperatures needed to detect infrared light.
The possibility of micrometeoroid hits was anticipated and contingencies like this were incorporated into The Choice of materials, the construction of components and the different modes of operating The Telescope .
" We always knew that Webb would have to weather the space environment, which includes harsh ultraviolet light and charged particles from The Sun , cosmic rays from exotic sources in The Galaxy , and occasional strikes by micrometeoroids within our Solar System , " said Paul Geithner, technical deputy Project Manager at Nasa's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
" We designed and built Webb with performance margin - optical, thermal, electrical, Mechanical - to ensure it can perform its ambitious science mission even after many years In Space . "
Engineers will adjust the positioning of the affected mirror segment to cancel out a portion of the introduced distortion, But they can't remove it all.
Webb is currently gathering observations of The Universe , near and far, to demonstrate its capabilities. Astronomers will present these pictures to The World next month.
Longer term, The Scientists intend to use Webb to try to see the very first stars to Light Up the cosmos more that 13. 5 billion years ago.
They'll also train The Telescope 's big " eye" on the atmospheres of distant planets to see if those worlds might be habitable.
Source of news: bbc.com
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