The Giant Magellan Telescope: A Titan Poised to Outshine Hubble and Webb
The goal is kind of simple, to unveil the very secrets of the universe from a location atop the Atacama…
The goal is kind of simple, to unveil the very secrets of the universe from a location atop the Atacama…
This is the best of Hubble. On April 24, 1990, NASA launched one of its most successful missions since the…
The Hubble Space Telescope, or Hubble, is a telescope that orbits outside the atmosphere in a circular orbit around the…
Name and Budget Initially, the telescope bore the short but difficult to pronounce name NGST (Next Generation Space Telescope). In…
Hubble holds the record for the longest operation among space telescopes, operating in low-earth orbit for more than 31 years….
Planetary scientists presented new results and images obtained during the long-term monitoring of the atmospheres of giant planets using the…
This stunning image, snapped using the Wide Field Planetary Camera on NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, shows a striking, mysterious dark…
Gazing into the Depths of the Universe The Hubble Space Telescope has once again amazed astronomers and space enthusiasts alike…
We are used to living in a world of large, macroscopic things. Everything that the average person encounters during the…
The universe is a magical place. Its full of mysteries. It is so big, and we can’t comprehend just how…
The idea that humanity is not alone in the universe has never been stronger than it is today. O say…
Galileo Galilei was an Italian physicist, astronomer, astrologer, and philosopher, considered together with Francis Bacon to be the founder of…
Astronomers have discovered the third appearance of a gravitationally lensed supernova explosion dubbed Supernova Requiem. The images of the phenomenon…
An international team of astronomers presented new research focused on the generation of energy around black holes and predicted that…
The Chandra X-Ray Observatory was launched into space in 1999 and has served a total of almost 22 years in…
In 2021, it was announced that the Giant Magellan Telescope project began crafting the sixth mirror segment out of seven…
The Universe is home to truly gigantic objects. Planets, stars, galaxies, and clusters of galaxies – each of these can…
Andromeda is the closest neighboring galaxy to the Milky Way. Located in the constellation with the same name, it can…
Yes, you read that correctly – scientists confirmed that a black hole is missing. And more curiously, not any black…
Usually, when astronomers talk about “neighboring galaxy“, they mean the Andromeda Galaxy, which is only 2.5 million light-years distant from…
If you look at the northwest part of the sky after sunset (southwest in the northern hemisphere), you will find…
Strange alien worlds are often shown to us in cinema and on television, and there is often a “theme” on…