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James Webb Telescope Turns Its Attention To The Kuiper Belt

James Miller — Tue, 22 Nov 2022 15:02:16 +0000

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 ...

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James Webb Finally to Launch for Real this Time!

James Miller — Sun, 17 Oct 2021 17:26:28 +0000

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, ...

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100m Liquid Telescope To Be Placed On The Moon

James Miller — Sun, 06 Dec 2020 15:44:50 +0000

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 ...

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TESS Telescope Finds Its First Habitable Planet Around Red Dwarf

James Miller — Sun, 26 Jan 2020 13:58:23 +0000

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 ...

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Exoplanet Observed Using Light From Optical Telescopes

James Miller — Wed, 03 Apr 2019 13:50:06 +0000

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 ...

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Top Astronomical Discoveries Made by Radio Telescopes

James Miller — Wed, 07 Nov 2018 15:24:10 +0000

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 ...

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10 Most Influential Optical Telescopes in Astronomy

James Miller — Fri, 17 Nov 2017 17:28:26 +0000

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 ...

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Event Horizon Telescope to Glimpse Milky Way’s Black Hole

James Miller — Thu, 06 Apr 2017 22:37:50 +0000

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 ...

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South Pole Telescope a Harsh Environment for Astronomers

James Miller — Sat, 18 Feb 2017 14:13:41 +0000

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 ...

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GMT to be World’s Biggest Optical Telescope

James Miller — Sat, 28 Jan 2017 13:19:16 +0000

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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