Tag: telescope
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…