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 ...
12 November 2021
Near-Earth asteroid might be a piece of the Moon
... led by the University of Arizona. Known as Kamo`oalewa, this sizeable space-rock was discovered by the PanSTARRS telescope in Hawaii in 2016 and was aptly named from a word found in a Hawaiian creation chant that alludes to an offspring...
