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New Black Hole Discovered [Video]
New Black Hole NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center We could say NASA has just discovered a never-before-seen black hole, but it might also be true to say a new black hole just threw up signal flares and...
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Megapixels: The James Webb Space Telescope Gets Chilled to 400 Degrees Below...
Cold Chamber Click here to see this amazing image even larger. NASA/Chris Gunn In 2018, NASA will launch the James Webb Space Telescope, which will boast mirrors approximately seven times larger than...
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Readers! Help Astronomers Study The Galaxy That's Going To Collide With Ours
Andromeda Galaxy NASA Sometimes, scientists need a hand. There's a lot of data to sift through, and now more than ever, the public can be part of that sifting. Take this fun new project: a...
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Self-Portraits In Mid-Fall And Other Amazing Photos From This Week
Anatomy Of A Fall Photographer Kerry Skarbakka shoots himself in a series of precarious positions suspended in mid-air. He sees human existence as a state of perpetual falling. We can't look away....
View ArticleThis Is The World's Smallest Space Telescope
Sometimes a bargain satellite is best. Engineers have been making cubesats--cheap cube-satellites that hitch a ride onto rockets and are jettisoned into orbit--for a decade now, and today, another...
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The Largest Telescope Dish
For the past 50 years, radio astronomers who wanted to study the dense, spinning remains of former stars and the structures of galaxies have gone to Puerto Rico's Arecibo Observatory, home to the...
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PopSci Visits The World's Largest Radio Telescope
Red ALMA ALMA antennae bathed in red light. In the background you can seee the southern Milky Way on the left and the Magellanic Clouds at the top. ESO/C. Malin A new radio telescope that can hear the...
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Gallery: The Seven Most Incredible Telescopes In Existence
Dek The biggest, smallest, and most robotic stargazing tools. When China completes its newest telescope project in 2016, the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), it will have...
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A Subterranean Performance Inaugurates The Largest Earth Telescope Ever
Tele-Commute Chilean singer Constanza Biagini, wearing a hat designed to look like the ALMA telescope dishes, belts out an unscripted vocal performance in a Santiago subway station. Rebecca Boyle...
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BigPic: The James Webb Space Telescope, Ready To Be Frozen
James Webb Space Telescope Wings NASA/MSFC/Fred Deaton It's cold up there in space, so before the James Webb Space Telescope gets sent up there, NASA scientists are putting it through its paces,...
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The Seven Most Incredible Telescopes In Existence
Gemini Time Lapse Courtesy Gemini View Photo GalleryWhen China completes its newest telescope project in 2016, the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), it will have a dish...
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Armed Telescope
Armed Telescope STFC/UKATC/ESO At the edges of the visible universe, 45 billion light-years away, sit some of the oldest known galaxies. How they formed and developed is a mystery, but a spectrograph...
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Big Pic: So Long, Herschel!
Herschel From The Ground N. Howes/E. Guido/Faulkes Telescope/LCOGT That little dot, the tiny one abutted by the two black lines? That's the Herschel space observatory, the European Space Agency...
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Private Company To Put A Telescope On The Moon
International Lunar Observatory International Lunar Observatory Association/Moon Express, Inc. Private space exploration is coming to the Moon, and soon. The world's first mission to the Moon's sunny...
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Historic Space Images From The Arecibo Observatory
Arecibo Observatory, Puerto Rico NSF When Cornell University built the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico—near the equator, so it could observe the planets without needing to move its 1,000-foot-wide...
View ArticleCES 2014: A Smartphone-Controlled Telescope for Amateur Stargazers
All this week, we're showing off the coolest, most futuristic, and strangest gadgets from the Consumer Electronics Show. Here we have Celestron's Cosmos 90GT WiFi Telescope. Check it out in this video...
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Big Pic: A Hypergiant Star And Its Clingy Companion
Artist's Interpretation of HR 5171 ESO The astronomer who discovered the size of this star says it's shaped like a peanut, but we disagree; that one "lobe" is much too large. Perhaps that's because...
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A Telescope That Finds Stars For You
Celestron Cosmos 90 GT Wi-Fi Telescope Jonathon Kambouris For non-astronomers, stargazing may seem simple: Just plop down a scope, and peer toward the heavens. It’s usually not quite that easy. Scopes...
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First Asteroid-Like Object Discovered With Rings
Artist's Rendering of (10199) Chariklo and Its Rings Lucie Maquet Meet (10199) Chariklo. It's an asteroid-like object that's a little more than 90 miles in diameter. It orbits the sun between Jupiter...
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'Homemade' Telescope Spots Seven Dwarves in Space
The Seven Dwarfs. Seven newly discovered dwarf galaxies encircle the (previously known) spiral galaxy M101. Yale News Please join us in welcoming seven new galaxies to the Universe. Technically, the...
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