The best space telescope you never heard of just shut down
On Thursday 27 March, the European Space Agency (ESA) sent its last messages to the Gaia Spacecraft. They told Gaia to shut ...
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This new telescope lens could be a game-changer for space imagery
Though still only in the prototype stage, this flat lens could one day be used on space telescopes, and perhaps even on ...
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Flat, razor-thin telescope lens could change the game in deep space imaging — and production could start soon
Scientists have developed an impossibly thin telescope lens that addresses a key astronomical challenge in a new study funded ...
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Final Chapter for NASA's Kuiper Airborne Observatory
NASA's Kuiper Airborne Observatory (KAO), a pioneering infrared telescope platform, is meeting its end as it is dismantled at ...
No, that’s not a cosmic cone of shame—it’s NASA’s newest space telescope
Satellites come in all shapes and sizes, but there aren't any that look quite like SPHEREx, an infrared observatory NASA ...
Webb Telescope Captures Neptune’s Long-Hidden Auroras in Stunning Detail
Long-Sought Auroral Glow Finally Emerges Under Webb’s Powerful Gaze Neptune lies in the cold, dark reaches of the outer edges of our solar system, about 3 billion miles from the Sun, at the farthest ...
Spherex: Nasa's cutting-edge telescope searching for the origins of life
Spherex (the Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer) will survey hundreds of millions of galaxies and "their combined cosmic glow" to give ...