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The Evolution of Telescopes: From Galileo to Modern-Day Astronomy
The journey of astronomical telescopes began in the early 17th century when Galileo Galilei crafted his first refracting ...
On this date: Galileo sheds new light on Io, Jupiter's hellscape moon
The Galileo probe expanded on our knowledge of Jupiter's moon, Io, showing us just how hot and hellish the Jovian satellite ...
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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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 ...
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope creates largest photomosaic ever made of "train wreck" Andromeda galaxy with over 2.5 billion pixels
The magnificent Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31), stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way, and ...
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Gravitational lensing helps Webb Telescope see individual stars 6.5 billion light-years away
Capturing images of individual stars in distant galaxies has generally been considered impossible for decades. But NASA’s ...
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Hawaii Has The Largest Reflector Telescope In The US But It's Not Run By Who You Think
Giant ground-based reflector telescopes do much of astronomy's heavy lifting, although the U.S.'s largest in Hawaii is not ...
Revolutionary Telescope Captures Sharpest View Ever of a Supermassive Black Hole in Action
Astronomers have captured the most detailed infrared images yet of an active galactic nucleus (AGN), using the Large ...
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Step inside a virtual reality art piece inspired by the James Webb Space Telescope
Artist Ashley Zelinskie's new VR work is called "Twin Quasar." Two roads diverge between a pair of quasars, and I'm sorry I can't travel both — actually, wait, I can travel both.
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Are James Webb Space Telescope images really so colorful?
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is known for looking deep into the universe with an unprecedented level precision and sensitivity. But its images aren't only scientifically useful — they're ...
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Rare picture shows Jupiter surrounded by mysterious lumps invisible to telescopes
The space lumps were captured by Nasa's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Hubble Telescope, which teamed up for the stunning picture. Nasa said that the purple space lumps surrounding the planet are ...