22 June 2018
Most precise test of Einstein’s general relativity outside Milky Way
...of the movie The Matrix – and the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, a team of astronomers calculated the mass of nearby elliptical ... of stars within it. “We used data from the Very Large Telescope in Chile to measure how fast the stars were moving in ...
November 2020
The alien hunter’s field manual
... provide unparalleled resolution, with images more than 12 times sharper than those from the Hubble Space Telescope. The siting of the telescope at Maunakea, Hawaii, has proved controversial and construction has been delayed by protestors. One way...
08 December 2015
New light shed on the mystery of 'Born Again' stars
... been resolved by a team of astronomers led by Natalie Gosnell, at the University of Texas, who have used the Hubble Space Telescope to ascertain why “blue stragglers” look hotter and bluer than they really should. The leading theory...
21 July 2021
New balloon-borne astronomical telescope to rival Hubble
... due to launch next year can only take images in a single optical band, and the James Webb Space Telescope due to launch this autumn is limited to infrared wavelengths. This means SuperBIT will be the only facility in the...
12 August 2020
Arecibo Observatory damaged by broken cable
... in place above the Arecibo Observatory – the world's most powerful radio space telescope – broke on Monday (10 August) causing a 100-foot-long gash on the telescope’s reflector dish. Operations at the UCF-managed observatory are stopped until...
August 2018
Exoplanet census promises radical discoveries
... orbit to the remarkable discoveries of NASA’s Kepler space telescope, progress has been rapid and surprising. The vast...planets that can be observed. By placing a coronagraph on a space telescope, such as WFIRST, it is possible to see much dimmer and...
