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...
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...
22 September 2021
Telescope built by Karoo locals releases data to astronomers around the world
.... “Construction of the array is phased in such a way that, as antennas are completed, they are hooked into the telescope data correlation system. This enables observations and early science to be carried out while construction continues,” says...
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...
16 July 2018
Science begins with South Africa's super radio telescope
... President Mr David Mabuza unveiled MeerKAT, a set of 64 telescopes that has already joined the ranks of the world’s great ... gas and dust, making it invisible from Earth using ordinary telescopes. However, some light does get through - light at very ...
May 2020
Space astronomy at the limits of technology
... at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, on 30 January 2020. My first Great Observatory was the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). I was a team member on the high resolution spectrograph, which was one of the instruments that Ball...
