11 January 2019
Birth of a black hole possibly captured for first time
...the centre of the phenomena was first spotted by the ATLAS telescope in Hawaii, but it was soon apparent that this was ... of space- and ground-based telescopes including ESA’s Integral and XMM-Newton and NASA’s NuSTAR and Swift space telescopes at ...
04 November 2020
New studies reveal the origin of fast radio bursts
...both the Swift Observatory and the Fermi Gamma ray Space Telescope, detected multiple bursts of X-ray and gamma rays ... luck would have it, China’s five-hundred meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) was also pointed in the same patch of sky...
14 March 2021
Life with Hubble
... a mule-driver turned janitor! Pointing to the “large population of people” with a fascination for the venerable Hubble Space Telescope, the author dedicates his book “to all the Hubble Huggers of the world”. These ‘huggers’ will find...
10 May 2017
Australia announce a strategic partnership with ESO
... The need for long-term partnerships with eight-metre-class optical/infrared telescopes was noted by the Australian government in its Decadal Plan for Australian ... sharper than those from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope at the same wavelength.
04 October 2019
Have ancient filaments helped uncover the nature of dark matter?
...packed with fuzzy dark matter. It will take more telescope time to ascertain the true type of dark matter...this." With a new generation of telescopes getting ready for launch – including the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) – scientists will hopefully...
19 February 2018
TESS arrives in Florida ahead of its April launch
... the quality of images the TESS team hope to collect. The telescope is set to monitor more than 200,000 stars for temporary drops...with large ground telescopes, the Hubble Space telescope and the James Webb Space Telescope, which is set for launch next ...
