The recently launched James Webb space telescope has been a major success for the astronomical community in its few months of operation. During this time, it has looked at exoplanets, faraway galaxies, nebulas of various …
The James Webb Space Telescope, or JWST for short, is set to launch less than a month from now on the 18th of December, 2021. This is about 7 years after its initial launch date, …
An international team of astronomers want to build a 100 meter in diameter telescope on the Moon. No this is not the plot of some sci-fi movie, it is very much something that could happen …
Are we alone? This is a question that we have asked ourselves ever since we started studying space. At first there were our 7 heavenly neighbors in our solar system, and later hundreds of new …
For the first time in history an exoplanet has been observed using optical interferometry. The process involved combining the light from multiple individual telescopes to reveal a single target in greater detail than any single …
Aside from sending out expeditions, space exploration is made possible with the use of certain instruments; more specifically – telescopes. However, astronomers do not solely rely on optical telescopes to observe space. Some really distant …
With each successive generation of telescopes, more about the wonders and complexities of the Universe are revealed than could ever have been imagined. It is therefore natural to ask who invented the telescope? Nevertheless, the …
Astronomers have now brought the Event Horizon Telescope online, and turned it towards the supermassive black hole situated at the center of our Milky Way called Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*). The 10-day project will run …
The South Pole can be a rather brutal environment for scientists to carry out their research as the Sun doesn’t come out at all in the southern winter (March–September), causing temperatures to drop to an …
The Gran Telescopio Canarias in Spain is currently the world’s largest optical telescope with the aperture of its main mirror 10.4 metres across. Despite roughly 8 meters being the maximum size for an accurate single …
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