18 December 2019
US Senate suggests Artemis delay after requested funding halved
... NASA’s successor to Hubble, the James Webb Space Telescope, was also allocated $423 million and funding was also provided...PACE and CLARREO-Pathfinder, and the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST). WFIRST was recommended in 2010 by United States...
28 February 2020
Record-breaking black hole eruption detected by astronomers
... Widefield Array (MWA) in Australia and the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) in India. "We've seen outbursts in the centres of... discovery with Phase 1 of the MWA, when the telescope had 2048 antennas pointed towards the sky," Johnston-Hollitt ...
08 June 2020
New discovery provides important clues on mysterious cosmic bursts
... the problem was close to being solved, astronomers using the Lovell Telescope in Manchester, UK, now have a new piece of evidence to...180916.J10158+56, which was recently discovered by the CHIME telescope in Canada. Elation aside, the result now pours...
26 February 2021
Lunar levitation track system among new ideas funded by NASA
... an innovative mission to view the surface of exoplanets using small sats and the Lunar Crater Radio Telescope (LCRT) – a vast radio telescope concept deployed to a crater on the far side of the Moon that was proposed by Saptarshi Bandyopadhyay...
07 April 2021
Astronomers find a rare pair of double quasars in the early Universe
... with the help of several space and ground-based telescopes, because despite their enormous size and energy output, ...down to two pairs with the help of the Hubble Space Telescope. Finally, the team used the the Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph ...
21 December 2018
Still time to see this years brightest comet
... missions target in the end. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope photographed comet 46P/Wirtanen on 13 December when the ...therefore best to view the comet through binoculars or a telescope. Backyard observers can currently find the comet near the ...
