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 can be seen with the naked eye on a clear autumn night as “a faint ...
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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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In "groundbreaking discovery," Webb telescope spots record number of stars in distant galaxy
NASA's powerful Webb Telescope has spotted more than 40 ancient ... which is normally spiral-shaped, into a "hall of mirrors of cosmic proportions." That allowed researchers to see dozens of ...
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James Webb Space Telescope's golden mirror in final test
The technological marvel that is the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST ... golden mirror that engineers are now checking one last time. The segmented reflector has to be folded to fit inside ...
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Random access parallel microscopy
We introduce a random-access parallel (RAP) imaging modality that uses a novel design inspired by a Newtonian telescope to image multiple ... The random-access parallel (RAP) system uses a large ...