Chile-based telescope will search for earliest stars and signs of extraterrestrial life
Dozens of boxes holding mirrors are placed along a remote desert hill in northern Chile as workers make progress in the ...
World's largest telescope gets its protective shell (photos)
The European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) — the world's largest visible- and infrared-light ...
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Why Comet G3 (ATLAS) will be 'remembered as the Great Comet of 2025' (photos)
"There is little question that, with its daylight display and spectacular evening apparition in a moonless sky, Comet 2024 G3 ...
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The “avon”Micro-Telescope
It may here be remarked that the ordinary terrestrial telescope with erecting eyepiece is nothing more than an object-glass, and a microscope, for an erecting eyepiece is nothing more than a ...
PUNCH spacecraft make final pit stop before launch
Four small suitcase-sized spacecraft, designed and built by Southwest Research Institute, have made a final Earth-side pit ...
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3 years of James Webb Space Telescope data on alien worlds now available online
The James Webb Space Telescope has revolutionized astronomy in just three years. A new project celebrates its impact on the ...
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Fastest disintegrating world ever seen 'spills its guts' for NASA's exoplanet hunter
"The rate at which the planet is evaporating is utterly cataclysmic, and we are incredibly lucky to be witnessing the final hours of this dying planet." ...