The European Southern Observatory’s Overwhelmingly Large Telescope (OWL) was designed to be a $1.2 billion telescope with a 100-meter lens, but the scale has been reduced to 60 meters. It would be able to observe objects 1000 times fainter than the Hubble Space Telescope and would be located in the lowlands east of Antofagasta, Chile. […]
Earth’s temperature ranges from -89°C to 58°C, while the Sun’s surface temperature is 5780K. Iron melts at 1811K, and the Earth’s molten core is 5650K. Temperatures above 1GK are reserved for special phenomena in the universe, such as supernovae, and the estimated temperature of the universe after the Big Bang is 1030K. On Earth, we’re […]
