06 August 2021
Surprising new finds as ASKAP surveys the skies
...total extent of this faint emission," Norris said. The Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) radio telescope is one of the precursor instruments to the Square Kilometre Array, an international project to build the world’s largest radio...
16 December 2021
NASA delays launch of JWST
... development in 1996, was originally expected to deploy in the early 2000s. However, multiple problems and a tripling of the telescope's original budget with a final price tag of nearly 10 billion dollars (8.8 billion euros) have forced delays. Webb...
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...
21 June 2021
Astronomers using GBT discover previously unknown huge galactic structure
.... But this wavelength signal has such a low frequency and low energy that it requires sensitive radio telescopes to detect it. Instead, an easier way to find H2 is to look for signals of other molecules known to mix with it in smaller quantities...
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...
11 January 2019
Birth of a black hole possibly captured for first time
...supernova at the centre of the phenomena was first spotted by the ATLAS telescope in Hawaii, but it was soon apparent that this was no ordinary...swarth of space- and ground-based telescopes including ESA’s Integral and XMM-Newton and NASA’s NuSTAR ...
