Nasa reveals Webb telescope’s first cosmic…
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Nasa said on Friday (July 8) the first cosmic images from the James Webb Space Telescope will…
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The First Privately Funded Killer Asteroid…
Gigantic asteroids have smashed into the Earth before—RIP dinosaurs—and if we’re not watching out for all those…
Telescopes reveal why Neptune is more blue than…
New space and ground-based telescope observations have revealed what's behind this difference in tone. The most…
Astronomers Want to Save Dark Skies from…
Last Thursday, on the same day that SpaceX launched 49 Starlink internet relay satellites—joining more than 2,000…
Astronomers Discover a Strange Galaxy Without…
Three years ago, Filippo Fraternali and his colleagues spotted a half dozen mysteriously diffuse galaxies, which…
Space telescope’s “golden eye” opens, last major…
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA’s new space telescope opened its huge, gold-plated, flower-shaped mirror Saturday, the…
Webb space telescope’s ‘golden…
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA’s new space telescope opened its huge, gold-plated, flower-shaped mirror Saturday, the…
The Physics of the James Webb Space Telescope
There's actually another good reason to use infrared light for the JWST: It's difficult to get an unobstructed view…
To Study the Next Earth, NASA May Need to Throw…
The HabEx team has proposed a 4-meter telescope paired with a coronagraph and a star shade 52 meters in diameter.…
The James Webb Space Telescope Finally Prepares…
More recently, some astronomers and astrophysicists have argued that NASA should rename its new flagship…