May 2022
Essential guide to the James Webb Space Telescope
...nearby worlds. Although we have planned extraordinary science, we cannot imagine the universe the James Webb Space Telescope is about to reveal. WST is not ‘Hubble’s Replacement’ but ‘Hubble’s Successor’, designed to build on Hubble’s rich legacy and...
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...
June 2021
Arecibo - an astounding legacy
...in 2008. In 2012, Arecibo participated in a very long baseline (VLBI) experiment with the Russian RadioAstron, a 10-metre radio telescope launched by the Russian space agency into a highly elliptical Earth orbit. This collaboration formed the largest...
21 July 2021
New balloon-borne astronomical telescope to rival Hubble
...helium balloon the size of a football stadium. Known as the The Superpressure Balloon-borne Imaging Telescope, or SuperBIT for short, the telescope is being built by Durham, Toronto and Princeton Universities in conjunction with NASA and the Canadian...
