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These are the first public images collected by the Chile-based observatory, which will begin a decade-long survey of the southern sky later this year.
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile has unveiled its first images, leaving astronomers in awe of the unprecedented ...
Part of the first image Hubble made (above right) is about 50 percent sharper than an image of the same area of space taken with a ground-based telescope (above left). Photograph by NASA/ESA In ...
William Allen Till, Jr. (Bill), 72 of Somerville passed away on June 9 at Huntsville Hospital, Huntsville. He was born ...
Cue JWST, which is able to collect longer, redder wavelengths of infrared light than optical telescopes like the Hubble Space Telescope. In December 2024, JWST shot the Sombrero in the mid ...
Cue JWST, which is able to collect longer, redder wavelengths of infrared light than optical telescopes like the Hubble Space Telescope. In December 2024, JWST shot the Sombrero in the mid ...
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has revealed yet another marvel from deep in outer space. A galaxy named MoM-z14 has taken the title of most distant galaxy the telescope has captured. It is a ...
On Thursday, a fortunate group of a dozen of us journeyed for an hour south and a little east of the city to the institution’s largest telescope, the 4.3m Lowell Discovery Telescope. We spent an ...
If you thought wireless power delivery was handy for charging phones but not terribly practical for much else, prepare to have your mind blown. One of our favourite YouTube channels, DIY Perks ...
This latest analysis is the result of combining data from the Hubble Space Telescope and the European Space Agency's (ESA) Gaia space telescope to perform 100,000 Monte Carlo computer simulations ...
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a luminous tangle of stars and dust called the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1385, located about 30 million light-years away. Hubble released an ...
As part of the Chicago-Carnegie Hubble Program, astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have performed new measurements of the Hubble constant. Their results are consistent with ...