Telescope
James Webb Space Telescope chief scientist Jane Rigby receives highest US civilian award
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When I sat down with Jane Rigby last month, in an upper-floor conference room at The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis — a quiet ...
NASA pauses $16 billion Hubble space telescope that pinned down age of the universe due to ‘glitch’
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One of Hubble’s gyroscopes is acting up, so the telescope went into safe mode Scientists are figuring out what to do, but ...
Hubble telescope celebrates 34th anniversary with an iridescent Dumbbell Nebula (image)
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To write that the Hubble Space Telescope is legendary would be an understatement. In the 34 years this telescope has been in ...
The Biggest Digital Camera Ever Made: 6,600 Pounds and 3,200 Megapixels
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In the early 1990s, a group of scientists had a dream: a new type of telescope that would push astronomy, astrophysics, and ...
Euclid ‘dark universe’ telescope’s vision restored by deicing campaign
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The Euclid “dark universe” probe’s ailing vision has been restored after an experimental deicing campaign successfully evaporated ice from the telescope’s mirrors, ...
Water molecules detected on the surface of asteroids for the first time
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Which telescope will be 1st to find alien life? Scientists have some ideas
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A peek into the future of exoplanet science suggests the forthcoming European Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) is going to give us our ...
The wildest cosmic mystery the James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered
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Not long after the James Webb Space Telescope came online in 2022, astronomers’ jaws hit the floor. “I remember thinking, This just ...
The explosions of stars may form mysterious, giant ‘odd radio circles’ in space, scientists say
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This beginner’s telescope gives you a ‘crystal-clear shot of the moon’ — nearly 50% off, it’ll arrive by Christmas
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For the person who wants to go on a cosmic journey, you might be hard-pressed to find a ticket to outer space ...