20 November 2020
The iconic Arecibo Observatory to be demolished due to safety concerns
... breakthrough science and has been used by many astronomical disciplines to boost discoveries, including research into brown dwarfs, locating near-Earth objects (NEOs) understanding pulsars and helping to refine fundamental theories of gravity . Most...
22 July 2020
Astronomers capture the first ever image of a multi-planet system around a Sun-like star
... was also the first telescope to directly image an exoplanet, back in 2004, when it captured a speck of light around a brown dwarf, a type of ‘failed’ star. “Our team has now been able to take the first image of two gas...
