Tag: telescope
Upgraded Very Large Array Telescope Will Spot Baby Solar Systems—If It’s Funded
Futuristic Radio Telescope Will Spot Baby Solar Systems—If It’s Funded A new telescope project called the Next-Generation Very Large Array will revolutionize radio astronomy if it gets the funding it needs By Sarah Scoles edited by Clara Moskowitz A prototype antenna for the proposed Next Generation Very Large Array (ngVLA) radio telescope in New Mexico.…
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope Marks 35 Years from Launch
Celebrate Hubble Space Telescope’s 35th Birthday with Stunning Images Happy anniversary to the Hubble Space Telescope, which launched on April 24, 1990 By Meghan Bartels edited by Lee Billings The Tarantula Nebula, located about 161,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud bordering our Milky Way, is packed with ionized hydrogen gas dotted by supernova…
NASA’s Next Major Space Telescope Is Ready to Launch. Trump Wants to Kill It and Other Vital Science
NASA’s Next Major Space Telescope Is Ready to Launch. Trump Wants to Kill It and Other Vital Science Amid harsh cuts, the Trump administration has proposed canceling the nearly ready-to-launch Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope By Nadia Drake edited by Dan Vergano The Nancy Grace Roman Telescope is designed to observe hundreds of millions of…
Telescope finds promising hints of life on distant planet
Scientists have found new but tentative evidence that a faraway world orbiting another star may be home to life. A Cambridge team studying the atmosphere of a planet called K2-18b has detected signs of molecules which on Earth are only produced by simple organisms. This is the second, and more promising, time chemicals associated with…
New NASA Space Telescope Will See the Universe in 102 Colors
New NASA Space Telescope Will See the Universe in 102 Colors NASA’s SPHEREx mission will survey the entire sky in 102 different “colors” of light, offering scientists an unprecedented look at the earliest days of the universe and much more By Meghan Bartels edited by Lee Billings Short for Spectro-Photometer for the History of the…
Europe’s Extremely Large Telescope Faces a New Dire Threat
World’s Largest Telescope Faces a New Dire Threat: Light Pollution from Renewable Energy Observatories in Chile’s Atacama Desert, including the world’s largest optical telescope, could be blinded by light pollution and other unwanted side effects from the proposed construction of a renewable energy megaproject By Katherine Helen Laliotis Europe’s Extremely Large Telescope, as seen at…
How NASA Used the Hubble Space Telescope to Look at the Sun
The UniverseFridays NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope Was Never Meant to Look at the Sun. Astronomers Tried It Anyway A little-known chapter of the Hubble Space Telescope’s history is a reminder of the risks of looking at the sun By Phil Plait edited by Lee Billings A composite illustration of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope with the…
Will We Find Planet Nine with the Vera Rubin Observatory’s New Telescope?
Largest Camera in the World Will Look for Planet Nine Pluto was unseated as the ninth planet in our solar system. Will we find a real Planet Nine? By Rachel Feltman, Clara Moskowitz, Fonda Mwangi & Madison Goldberg [CLIP: Theme music] Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. Unless you’re really on…