Tag: Telescope
First celestial image from revolutionary telescope
Ione WellsSouth America correspondentGeorgina RannardScience correspondentNSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory"This transient side is the really new unique thing... That has the potential to...
Upgraded Very Large Array Telescope Will Spot Baby Solar Systems—If It’s...
New Mexico’s Plains of San Agustin are otherworldly: Silence, sand and sharp plants reign on the valley floor. Knobbly volcanic rock rises above....
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope Marks 35 Years from Launch
Celebrate Hubble Space Telescope’s 35th Birthday with Stunning ImagesHappy anniversary to the Hubble Space Telescope, which launched on April 24, 1990By Meghan Bartels...
NASA’s Next Major Space Telescope Is Ready to Launch. Trump Wants...
Technicians at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center are nearing the finish line on the space agency’s newest flagship astrophysics mission. Called the Nancy...
A Day on Uranus Is Longer Than We Thought, Hubble Telescope...
A Day on Uranus Is Longer Than We Thought, Hubble Telescope RevealsA new way to measure the length of Uranus’s day could also...
Europe’s Extremely Large Telescope Faces a New Dire Threat
A high-stakes face-off is brewing in the arid deserts of northern Chile, between astronomers building the world’s largest optical telescope and a proposed...
How NASA Used the Hubble Space Telescope to Look at the...
If you’ve ever done any public outreach work for astronomy—if you’ve given open lectures, volunteered at a stargazing event, written about the sky,...
Will We Find Planet Nine with the Vera Rubin Observatory’s New...
Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. Unless you’re really on the low end of our listener age bell curve,...
