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...
26 February 2018
A Sky Wonderful with Stars – 50 years of modern astronomy on Maunakea
... that produced those images than most. In this case it’s the telescopes sited 4200 m above sea level on Maunakea in Hawai’i. The author...unexpected photograph is one that shows the Hubble Space Telescope (as a time-lapse streak across a star field) with...
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 ...
02 March 2018
Light from the Universe’s first stars detected
... data processing and hundreds of observing hours. Indirectly, they have seen farther than even the Hubble Space Telescope to find evidence of the earliest stars." The EDGES instrument at the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory, Australia. In each...
