Thinking of Buying a Telescope? Here's Our Advice
But if you have your heart set on purchasing a telescope, here are a few good tips to follow: Go to your local bookstore or ...
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 ...
A rare look at NASA’s next sharp-eyed space telescope
NASA's Roman Space Telescope is preparing for launch in 2027, with a mission to study distant galaxies and explore dark ...
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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 ...
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," ...
Einstein Probe Uncovers a Puzzling 12.5 Billion-Year-Old Cosmic Explosion
The Einstein Probe is revolutionizing our view of the distant X-ray universe, offering an unprecedented look at some of the ...
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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 ...
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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 ...