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Subaru Telescope’s Insect-Like Compound Eye to Debut in February
The instrument is the Prime Focus Spectrograph, and it is one of the flagship instruments in the next era of the Subaru ...
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Roman Space Telescope Wide Field Instrument Poster
The Wide-Field Instrument (WFI), the primary instrument aboard NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, is a 300-megapixel ...
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James Webb Space Telescope discovers one of the earliest 'truly gargantuan' supernovas ever seen
The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted one of the earliest and most distant supernovas, marking the death of a stellar ...
Einstein Probe detects puzzling cosmic explosion
Einstein Probe's Wide-field X-ray Telescope (WXT) detected a burst of low-energy X-rays. Astronomers call such X-rays "soft," even though they are still far more energetic than visible or ultraviolet ...
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A rare look at NASA’s next sharp-eyed space telescope
Roman’s wide-angle view of deep space ... a telescope that had originally been called WFIRST, for Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope. The Roman is the latest in what is turning into a golden ...
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NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope Was Never Meant to Look at the Sun. Astronomers Tried It Anyway
A little-known chapter of the Hubble Space Telescope’s history is a reminder of the risks of looking at the sun ...
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New tool helps Subaru researchers better understand formation, evolution of universe
Notably, the University of Tokyo Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe has taken the lead in ...
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Subaru Telescope’s new compound eye to start exploring the universe in February
The instrument, called the Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS), features approximately 2,400 prisms scattered across the extremely wide field of view available at the Subaru Telescope’s primary focus, ...
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Roman Space Telescope’s Wide Field Instrument
The Wide-Field Instrument (WFI), the primary instrument aboard NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, is a 300-megapixel ...