Webb telescope clears the haze around a stunning galactic icon
Webb's ability to see through hazy obstacles is demonstrated here with the Sombrero, aka Messier 104, a nearly edge-on spiral ...
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NASA's next-gen Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope gets its powerful eye (photos)
"A high point of our journey [has been] witnessing the entire telescope come together as an aligned system — a moment that ...
Review Of Infinite Cosmos: Visions From The James Webb Space Telescope
Brian Greene (Cosmic String Theory) and Astrophysicist Ethan Siegel have collaborated on a National Geographic coffee-table ...
When a Telescope Is a National-Security Risk
Ivezić is the 59-year-old director of the Vera Rubin Observatory, a $1 billion telescope that the United States has been ...
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The Evolution Of The Telescope, From Galileo To Hubble And Beyond
Even larger observatories have been planned including the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), under construction in Chile's ...
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2 space telescope designs will battle it out to become NASA's next cosmic imager
The teams behind two potential new space telescopes have embarked on their final design studies as they go head-to-head to ...
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Kathryn Thornton: Correcting Hubble's vision | Starmus Highlights
Renowned astronaut Kathryn Thorntondiscusses the challenges faced by the Hubble Space Telescope after its launch in 1990 and how human ingenuity and teamwork made Hubble’s success possible.
It's been 100 years since we learned the Milky Way is not the only galaxy
On Sunday November 23, 1924, 100 years ago this month, readers perusing page six of the New York Times would have found an ...
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How Do Telescopes Work? Astronomy's Most Indispensable Tool, Explained
See how telescopes capture the cosmos. ExtremeTech explains the science behind lenses and space exploration. Start exploring ...
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NASA Gets Its Hands on Telescope Mirrors That'll Count Billions of Stars in the Milky Way
We know the tool by its current name, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, after the American scientist that literally gave birth to the mighty, but now very old Hubble. Up until not long ago ...