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NASA released images of star clusters NGC 460 and NGC 456 in the Small Magellanic Cloud. Hubble shows visible light, while ...
Here's everything to know about the James Webb Space Telescope, and what it captured on its three-year anniversary observing the cosmos. To mark Webb's third year of operations, NASA shared an image ...
On May 20, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope sent its first image to Earth. This photo turned out to be 50% sharper than ...
How does the camera on the James Webb Space Telescope work and see so far out? – Kieran G., age 12, Minnesota Imagine a ...
When it comes to telescopes, there are no bigger names than Hubble and Webb, but why have two space telescopes anyway, how ...
These telescopes represent the cutting edge of astronomical discovery, probing the universe across the electromagnetic ...
The brand new Vera Rubin telescope is about to begin its 10-year mission to offer the newest cosmic perspective we've had in ...
Readers doubtless know that metals expand when heated. As explained in a NASA blog post that’s a problem for space telescopes ...
The game-changing Vera C. Rubin Observatory will collect more astronomical data in its first year than all other telescopes ...
L3Harris in Rochester played a pivotal role in building the Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s massive secondary mirror.
The first images from the telescope were released earlier this week, and it uses a 3,200-megapixel camera the size of a car.
In just over 10 hours of test observations, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory captured millions of celestial objects, opening the ...