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and suggested it could get as large as 26 feet (8 m). The Hubble Space Telescope, for comparison, has a 6.5-foot (2 m) aperture, he said. Even the smallest version of HWO will need a huge rocket to ...

Every 26 months, the orbits of Earth and Mars allow us a closer look when Mars is at opposition — which will happen on Jan. 15, 2025.

In another corner of the room loomed the sun shade (or “deployable aperture cover”), which will ensure the telescope can probe the cosmic darkness without getting the sun in its eyes.

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Illustration by Airborne and CPI Vertex Antennentechnik GmbH An additional challenge for CPI Vertex and Airborne is that production would be for two telescopes using the same design: the FYST and the ...

From a telescope network that spans much of the globe to a psychology study that spans 67 countries, here are the biggest science experiments on the planet.

Alinda is one of the five largest near-Earth asteroids, coming closer than 9.3 million miles until the year 2200.