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...
08 April 2020
First-ever photo proof of powerful jet emerging from colliding galaxies
... a mountain summit in Hawaii. They performed subsequent observations with the Gran Telescopio Canarias and William Herschel Telescope on the island of La Palma off the coast of Spain, as well as with NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory space telescope.
30 June 2015
Debating Asteroid Day: NEOs, Dr. Brian May, the Catalina Sky Survey and more
.... His organisation, the B612 Foundation, has now focused its efforts on building an infrared, cryogenic space telescope to put in orbit around the Sun. The telescope, called Sentinel, will be looking at Earth with the Sun at its back, scanning...
30 March 2016
Have astronomers found the signatures of the very first black holes formed through the collapse of gas clouds?
...) is a powerful imaging survey of the distant Universe being carried out with two cameras on board the Hubble Space Telescope. It is designed to focus on two critical epochs in cosmic evolution, “Cosmic Dawn", less than 1 billion years after the...
