Lobster Eye X-ray Telescope for perfect sky-gazing
Posted By: Vikas Shekhawat | Apr 8 2006
Scooping out and learning from the mysteries of nature, here's a wonderful example of natural technology. A new X-ray telescope being designed by UK astronomers is based on the working of the eyes of a lobster. A lobster can observe object all around it by turning its pipe like eyes without moving his head and focusing light through reflection, rather than refraction, as in the human eye, thus capturing a wider area.
lobster eye x ray telescope
The Lobster All-Sky X-ray Monitor will provide an unlimited field of view making it a perfect device to monitor the sky and will give astrophysics a whole new direction allowing the scientists to explore the unknown, especially learning more about X-ray emission of comets and stars, supernova and gamma-ray bursts.
