19 March 2019
Webb telescope partly blamed for WFIRST funding cut
...“on schedule to an on budget launch. All of the technologies are ready to go.” Designed with the sensitivity of the Hubble Space Telescope but 100 times the field of view, “WFIRST will characterize extrasolar planets, advance planet imaging, discover...
31 January 2020
First images of new solar telescope produces most detailed images of the Sun
...critical infrastructure and to put satellites into safe mode. The engineering To achieve the proposed science, this telescope required important new approaches to its construction and engineering. Built by NSF's National Solar Observatory and managed...
18 November 2020
Astronomers want to revive idea for ‘Ultimately Large Telescope’ on the Moon
... being built in Chile. It turns out, a decade ago, NASA had already thought up the “Ultimately Large Telescope,” - a sizeable liquid mirror telescope that would located on the Moon. Now, a group of astronomers from The University of Texas at Austin...
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 ...
08 April 2020
NASA funds vast radio telescope concept on far side of the Moon
... weight and cost compared to all previous lunar-surface telescope mission concepts, says Bandyopadhyay. If the concept ever ... for example VBLI observations were used by the Event Horizon Telescope last year to make the first ever photograph of a black...
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...
