After 10 years of delay, the controversial Thirty Meter Telescope may finally get built — in Spain

A long-delayed project to build the largest telescope in the Northern Hemisphere atop Mauna Kea in Hawaii has been given new ...
Tech Times

James Webb Discoveries Unveiled: New Space Findings Reveal Secrets of the JWST Early Universe and Cosmic Dawn

Discover James Webb discoveries revealing the JWST early universe, cosmic dawn insights, and groundbreaking new space ...
Scientific American

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 If you’ve ever done any public outreach work for astronomy—if you’ve given open lectures ...
Chattanooga Times Free Press

Local History: Observatory telescope once one of South’s largest

(Editor's Note: First in a series) On May 14, 1935, the Chattanooga News headline touted "Observatory In City Is Urged," noting that Chattanooga's first astronomical observatory would be designed by ...
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Guide to space telescope archives / prepared by the Space Telescope History Project

"...The Space Telescope History Project, a joint enterprise of the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, and the History of Science Department, the ...
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Selected items from the history of the Hubble Space Telescope

"Space Telescope History Project"--Cover. "These items from ... were selected by the Space Telescope History Project, a joint enterprise of the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, ...
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How astronomers used gravitational lensing to discover 44 new stars in distant galaxy

The most powerful telescope to be launched into space has made history by detecting a record number of new stars in a distant galaxy. NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, history's largest and most ...
Tech Times

How the James Webb Telescope Uncovers New Exoplanets and Redefines Habitable Worlds

The James Webb Telescope is reshaping our understanding of distant worlds, revealing exoplanet atmospheres, potential ...
Jalopnik

In Its First Year, Rubin Observatory Will Gather More Space Data Than All Other Telescopes In History Combined

Every year, all telescopes on Earth and in space combined discover around 20,000 new asteroids. In just its first ten hours of activity, a single new observatory discovered 2,104 asteroids, or in ...
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Scientists may have finally seen dark matter for the first time in history, sparking huge excitement in the space community

Dark matter was first proposed in 1933 when scientists observed that galaxies were spinning too rapidly. They should have ...
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Telescope Will Create All-Sky Maps of the Universe, Every Human Will Have Access to Them

The race to uncover the secrets of the Universe is on: NASA's most recent astrophysics space telescope has begun returning data, and unlike what's happening with other telescope projects, absolutely ...