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A fortunate dozen spent a night with the 4.3-meter Lowell Discovery Telescope, happy to be gazing at some great deep-sky objects.
Simulation: New telescope soon to detect millions of objects in the solar system In a few days, the first images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory are to be presented.
In 2024, the National Science Foundation stated there was only enough money for one giant US telescope. Now the thirty-meter telescope will be left empty-handed.
Astronomy has lost one of its most assiduous calculators of eclipses with the passing of astronomer Fred Espenak, known widely as "Mr. Eclipse." ...
The National Science Foundation's decision to cut funds for the Thirty Meter Telescope planned for Maunakea on Hawaiʻi Island is a setback for the project. The Conversation talked to Hawaiʻi County ...
New James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) observations of exoplanet WASP-121b are contributing valuable clues about how the planet formed from a disc of dust and gas surrounding its parent star..
Nighttime exterior telescope rendering of the Giant Magellan Telescope with support site buildings in the foreground in Las Campanas, Chile. The National Science Foundation has withdrawn financial ...
CAPE TOWN :Astronomers working with South Africa's SKA telescope are pushing authorities to ensure that any licensing agreement with Elon Musk's Starlink will protect their groundbreaking ...
Work on a $2.4bn telescope sited on top of a volcano in Hawaii is set to be abandoned after the body funding decided to prioritise other schemes and areas of research. Work on the Thirty Meter ...