The frame of the dome that will house the world's largest telescope has been completed, marking another key milestone in the observatory's construction. The European Southern Observatory's (ESO) ...
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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 ...
Recently discovered interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS have been captured using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large ...
A technique called interferometry can greatly magnify tiny objects on the sky, and is powerful enough to reveal the surfaces ...
Members of the research team Grace Chesmore (left) and Katie Harrington (right) open the front of the tester used to analyze the Simons Observatory Large Aperture Telescope receiver optics. CREDIT ...
Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope and the W.M. Keck Observatory, astronomers at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland and the California Institute of Technology, USA, have ...
More than 100 years ago, astronomer George Ellery Hale brought our two Pasadena institutions together to build what was then the largest optical telescope in the world. The Mt. Wilson Observatory ...
A new generation of extremely large telescopes requires fresh approaches to correct for the blurring effects caused by the Earth’s atmosphere, as Richard de Grijs, one of an international team of ...
A new study shows the European Extremely Large Telescope will be able to directly image and study the atmospheres of some potentially habitable exoplanets. When you purchase through links on our site, ...
It is the colours of a sunset that inspire Joseph Anderson, an astronomer at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in the high Atacama desert, in northern Chile. “They start off very blue and ...
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