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World’s Largest Telescope Faces a New Dire Threat: Light Pollution from Renewable Energy
Observatories in Chile’s Atacama Desert, including the world’s largest optical telescope, could be blinded by light pollution ...
Inside the Extremely Large Telescope being built in Chile
Workers in Chile are making progress on the Extremely Large Telescope, planned as one of the most capable astronomical ...
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NASA X-ray telescope Chandra discovers black holes 'blow' on their food to cool it down
Jets blasting from supermassive black holes cause gas to cool and fall toward that cosmic titan in a cosmic feeding process.
Chile-based telescope will search for earliest stars and signs of extraterrestrial life
Dozens of boxes holding mirrors are placed along a remote desert hill in northern Chile as workers make progress in the ...
Work progresses on giant telescope in Chile's Atacama Desert
Dozens of boxes holding mirrors are placed along a remote desert hill in northern Chile as workers make progress in the ...
NASA's Webb telescope threatened with budget cuts. They would hit hard.
The James Webb Space Telescope is peering into distant worlds and rewriting our grasp of the cosmos. And in 2025, its budget ...
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Supersonic Breakthroughs and Giant Telescopes: Science's New Frontier
Recent science updates include Boom Supersonic's XB-1 breaking the sound barrier, progress on the Extremely Large Telescope ...
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Extreme jet stream: Alien planet has universe's fastest recorded winds
Astronomers aimed the Very Large Telescope in Chile at a nearby exoplanet and discovered jet stream winds blowing nearly 80 ...
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Chile's Giant Telescope: Peering into the Universe's Origins
The Extremely Large Telescope, under construction in Chile, aims to explore exoplanets for potential life and examine the ...
7 most beautiful images of interacting galaxies shared by NASA Hubble Space Telescope
This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features Arp 72, a very selective galaxy group that only includes two ...
South African telescope discovers a giant galaxy that’s 32 times bigger than Earth’s
The MeerKAT telescope is located in the Karoo region of South Africa, is made up of 64 radio dishes and is operated and ...
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Work progresses on giant telescope in Chile's Atacama Desert
The telescope's primary mirror will measure about 39.3 meters (130 feet), made up of 798 pieces. It is situated in the middle of the arid Atacama Desert, considered one of the best places on Earth ...