The European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) — the world's largest visible- and infrared-light ...
The Webb telescope — a scientific collaboration between NASA, ESA, and the Canadian Space Agency — is designed to peer into ...
What does the discovery of a binary pulsar in 1974, the discovery of the first exoplanets, and the most powerful message ...
Astronomers are sounding alarm bells as the world's most precious sky-observing location faces a light pollution risk due to ...
The Roman Space Telescope is nearing completion with its recent integration into the launch spacecraft. This sets the stage ...
Astronomers are raising concerns about the impact of light pollution from a renewable energy project on the world’s most ...
By introducing a secondary mirror and a surrounding shroud, the antenna is less likely to pick up noisy radio radiation from the (relatively hot) ground surrounding the telescope. Moving the reflector ...
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 ...
At its core it’s a Newtonian reflector telescope like many others available ... to get high resolution views of Jupiter and its four giant moons, but we could even glimpse the pinkish bands ...
Astronomers are celebrating the completion of a 2.5-billion-pixel panoramic picture of the entire Andromeda Galaxy. The team includes several UC Santa Cruz researchers who made significant ...