Scathing Report Claims Energy Megaproject Will Ruin ‘Best Place on Earth for Astronomy’
The project in the Atacama Desert could increase light pollution by up to 50%, making it much harder to observe the cosmos ...
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Astronauts complete last Hubble spacewalk
It can capture images that telescopes on Earth can't, partly because it doesn't have to gaze through the planet's murky atmosphere. View a slideshow of galaxy images captured by Hubble The famous ...
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A fancy new telescope is heading to space: Here’s what SPHEREx will do
The design is meant to protect the spacecraft from the heat of the Earth and the ... the fleet of space telescopes the agency has already deployed, including the famous Hubble and James Webb ...
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Light As A Cosmic Time Machine by Andrew Fraknoi
The giant planet Jupiter, whose large moons Galileo discovered with his "trouble-making" telescope, is more than 5 times farther from the Sun than the Earth is. We see a planet like Jupiter ...
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NASA's newest telescope blasts off to map entire sky, millions of galaxies
It sports three aluminum-honeycomb cones, one inside the other, to protect from the sun and Earth's heat, resembling a 10-foot (3-meter) shield collar for an ailing dog. Besides the telescope, ...