A brand new research makes use of information collected by the South Pole Telescope, above, to deepen our understanding of how the universe was born and advanced. Credit score: Aman Chokshi Roughly 400,000 years after the Large Bang, the universe cooled simply sufficient to permit photons to flee from the primordial cosmological soup. Over the … Read more
The 1-meter dish of a home radio telescope. Credit: Jack Phelps If I ask you to picture a radio telescope, you probably imagine a large dish pointing to the sky, or even an array of dish antennas such as the Very Large Array. What you likely don’t imagine is something that resembles a TV dish … Read more
Artist impression of the James Webb Space Telescope. Its design and construction were made more complicated and expensive because it had to fit into the nosecone of the rocket that launched it. Assembling telescopes in space could be an improvement. Credit: ESA The Hubble Space Telescope was carried to space inside the space shuttle Discovery … Read more
NASA has revealed the first look at a full-scale prototype for six telescopes that will enable, in the next decade, the space-based detection of gravitational waves — ripples in space-time caused by merging black holes and other cosmic sources. The LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna) mission is led by ESA (European Space Agency) in partnership … Read more