28 March 2018
Woes for Webb as the space telescope is delayed again
... indeed. However, fast forward to 2017 and the Webb telescope is still Earth-bound. Nonetheless, given the size and ...the project goes beyond the $8 billion cost cap, the space telescope will have to be reauthorised by Congress and the potential for ...
09 October 2017
New telescope attachment helps find exoplanets
...atmospheres." With aims to maximise the utilisation of this technology, the research team is already establishing collaborations on other telescopes around the world. "Our goal is to equip the broader exoplanet community with low-cost precision tools...
December 2014
Finding NEO
... two thirds of PHAs larger than 140m. Another proposed space-based survey, Sentinel, would place a 0.5-metre telescope into an orbit similar to that of Venus. Sentinel is anticipated to be capable of detecting 90 per cent of NEOs larger than 140m...
22 November 2017
JWST completes crucial cryogenic test
... complete thermal vacuum testing for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST); confirming that the soon-to-be-launched observatory is ...would normally be obscured from our eyes. The Webb telescope is thus hoping to unravel some of the greatest mysteries...
22 June 2018
Most precise test of Einstein’s general relativity outside Milky Way
...Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile – a device that looks like a machine ...movie The Matrix – and the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, a team of astronomers calculated the mass of nearby elliptical...
02 December 2016
GREGOR helps scientists take a closer look at the Sun
... goal is high precision measurements of the solar magnetic field. With a spatial resolution of some 50 km, it means that the telescope can distinguish details on the solar surface if the size of the phenomena is 50km or bigger (any smaller and...
