Tag: observatory
Are We Alone? NASA’s Habitable Worlds Observatory Aims to Find Out
NASA’s First-Ever Alien-Hunting Space Telescope Could Enlighten Our New Dark Age The Habitable Worlds Observatory is poised to tell us whether Earth-like planets are common—if it can get off the ground By Nadia Drake & Lee Billings An animated rendering of several engineering architecture concepts for NASA’s Habitable Worlds Observatory, a next-generation flagship-class space telescope…
Rubin Observatory Data Flood Will Let the Universe Alert Astronomers 10 Million Times a Night
Astronomers Brace for 10 Million Alerts a Night from Rubin Observatory Astronomers have never had this much data available this quickly before By Meghan Bartels edited by Lee Billings Made from more than 1,100 images captured by NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory, the video begins with a close-up of two galaxies then zooms out to…
Blockbuster New Vera C. Rubin Observatory Will Change Astronomy Forever
This Revolutionary New Telescope Will Observe the Whole Sky Every Three Days The game-changing Vera C. Rubin Observatory will collect more astronomical data in its first year than all other telescopes combined By Rebecca Boyle edited by Clara Moskowitz View of Rubin Observatory at sunset in May 2024. The 8.4-meter Simonyi Survey Telescope at Rubin…