The Giant Magellan Telescope will be built on a mountaintop in Chile’s Atacama Desert, a region that is home to many telescopes thanks to its clear skies, dry air and minimal ambient light ...

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Here’s how it works. Astronomers analyze the light our telescopes receive from faraway galaxies to assess their physical properties, such as the number of stars they contain. We can use the ...

A few months ago, I flew to Houston to visit a small startup called Lunar Resources, which aspires to build the largest telescope in the solar system—not on Earth but on the far side of the moon.

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will be the largest radio telescope in the world when completed in 2028. Split across South Africa and Australia, with a headquarters in the UK, the facility will ...

For over 20 years, the Very Large Telescope (VLT) has been the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) leading astronomical instrument. Despite the name, the Very Large Telescope is not one ...

it would at least enable planning for future follow-up observations of interesting targets with current and future more ...

"The elimination of nearby bright targets may mean that HWO will need to shift to fainter, further targets which, in turn, ...

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The James Webb Space Telescope was built to study the first stars and galaxies that formed in the universe. Credit: NASA GSFC / CIL / Adriana Manrique Gutierrez illustration When astronomers ...

This is a gravitationally lensed galaxy cluster observed by the James Webb Space Telescope. Any questions? Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / STScI / Vicente Estrada-Carpenter Did the cosmos just hand us ...