On March 28, the German Federal Research Minister Bettina Stark-Watzinger visited the Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKAO) supertelescope under construction in South Africa together with Dr.
In times like these, we all need to look beyond ourselves. This project might help: OnStep is an open-source telescope controller, a device that controls a telescope to point at something ...
Getting a closer look at the Moon isn’t particularly difficult; even an absolute beginner can point a cheap telescope towards our nearest celestial neighbor and get some impressive views.
“This was the telescope of our dreams, and the dream of anyone who wants to see the sky.” The guiding idea of their startup Unistellar is to make astronomy as accessible as possible ...
Inouye Solar Telescope is the first to use data from this instrument. It is hoped that the work will pave the way for future studies to enable a better understanding of the potential risks to key ...
Researchers working with data from the James Webb Space Telescope have spotted silicate cloud features in a distant planet's atmosphere. NASA said that the atmosphere of the "Tatooine-like world ...
NASA predicts that in July of 2022 the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will take in its first view of the universe and send proper images back to astronomers on Earth. The most powerful space ...
The James Webb Space Telescope is continuing to unravel the beauty and mystery of the cosmos since delivering its first images in July last year - but the mission to deploy the next big space ...
Gas giants orbiting our sun show a clear pattern; the more massive the planet, the lower the percentage of "heavy" elements (anything other than hydrogen and helium) in the planet's atmosphere.
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have made a remarkable discovery about a unique planet located about 40 light years from Earth. Unlike Earth, the exoplanet — named VHS 1256 b ...
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has detected churning clouds of dust on a distant planet that orbits two stars. Known as VHS 1256 b, the exoplanet is about 40 light-years away from Earth and ...