Telescope News
NASA's Magic: By mapping the entire sky, SPHEREx will pinpoint where these molecules are, not only in our galaxy but also in nearby systems.
The telescope will be used to observe the galaxies and other astronomical elements present at the edge of the world
About 50L of mercury-filled into a container of the ILMT
ILMT is capable of generating 10-15 GB per night
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is due for launch on Saturday.
It is a $9 billion instrument that will allow to peer more deeply into the cosmos.
The 14,000-pound instrument will be released from the French-built rocket after a 26-minute ride into space.
Radio detection of exoplanets aims at the physical characterization of exoplanets and comparative studies with solar system planets.
The new instrument would begin a five-year observing run at Kitt Peak National Observatory after its installation next year.
The project, inaugurated in 2015 and expected to be operational by 2021, will be used to study planets outside our solar system and analyze galaxy formation.
"It just kind of tickled you all over — it was wonderful — and I wish I could do it again," said Stormy Shreves, 57, a fish gutter who lives in Depoe Bay. "But I won`t see something like that ever again, so I`m really glad I took the day off work so I could experience it."
The US space agency NASA's lost football-field-sized balloon with a telescope hanging beneath it has been recovered Antarctica from after a year of its flight.
The image shows the colorful "last hurrah" of NGC 2440, which lies about 4,000 light-years from Earth in the direction of the constellation Puppis.
N159 is located over 160,000 light-years away. It resides just south of the Tarantula Nebula (heic1402), another massive star-forming complex within the LMC.
Stargazers will be treated to a spectacular celestial show this weekend, the Venus-Jupiter conjunction.
The Red Planet will be about 46.8 million miles away from the Earth, its closest distance since November 2005.
Mercury will begin its transit at 7:12 am EST (4:42 pm, India time) today and take about 7.5 hours to fully cross the face of the sun.
India is a 10 per cent partner in the TMT project, which includes China, Japan, Canada and the US.
ARIES, the largest optical telescope of its kind in Asia, is a product of Indo-Belgian collaboration.
SOFIA’s instruments observe infrared energy - one part of the electromagnetic spectrum which includes visible light, x-rays, radio waves and others.
Have black holes always fascinated you? Well, all you need is a 20 cm telescope to observe a nearby active black hole.
US space agency NASA has shared an image of the aerial view of the summit of the Mauna Kea volcano on Hawaii Island.
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