NASA will manufacture a Telescope Mirror in Space
NASA is developing first-of-its-kind in-space manufacturing technique for telescope mirrors
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A Very Large eye exam
Surrounded by the gleaming metal of one of ESO’s Very Large Telescope’s (VLT) Unit Telescopes, two engineers are carrying out maintenance work on the telescope’s complex and delicate
James Webb Space Telescope Full Mirror Deployment
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope fully deployed its primary mirror into the same configuration it will have when in space, in a recent test.
James Webb Space Telescope Has Been Assembled
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has been assembled for the first time, at Northrop Grumman’s facilities in Redondo Beach, California.
TESS telescope has found a nearby super-Earth
NASA’s TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) telescope discovered a relatively close super-Earth exoplanet, at 31 light-years from us.
Hubble is back to work after a very simple fixing
When things are stop working, try first to turn them off and then on again. This is exactly what NASA did when the last Hubble gyroscope stopped
ESPRESSO instrument achieves first light with all four Unit Telescopes
The ESPRESSO instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile, has used the combined light of all four of the 8.2-metre Unit Telescopes for the first time.
Major Gravitational Wave discovery from Colliding Neutron Stars
First light from gravitational wave source observed. Astronomers across the world photographed the event of the collision between two neutron stars, 130 million light-years away.
Project Blue- A Telescope to Find Habitable Worlds
Project Blue aims to build a telescope to find habitable worlds, and photograph a ‘sister Earth.’
Webb Telescope for Testing in Space Simulation Chamber
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope sits in front of the door to Chamber A, a giant thermal vacuum chamber operating below the extremely cold 50 K (-223°