telescopes
How the World’s Largest Telescope Will Hunt for Alien Life
The European Extremely Large Telescope has just been greenlit for construction.
Playing Hacker With Billion-Dollar Telescopes
Engineer Danielle George, who will present the Royal Institution’s Christmas Lectures on hacking, repurposes tech used to listen for the Big Bang for earthly applications.
Resurrecting Canada's Long-Lost 46-Meter Telescope In the Middle of the Woods
You can find a lot of things in Algonquin Provincial Park—trees, trails, probably some bears, and a massive radio telescope.
The Black Clouds of Space Bring Life to the Universe
Astronomers in Chile just observed fresh images of Lupus 4, over 400 light-years away from Earth
How the Universe's Most Intense Magnetic Fields Are Born
A runaway star was "the smoking gun" that explains why some dying stars form black holes, while others become magnetars.
Astronomer Caroline Herschel Has Been Snubbed for a Century
William and John Herschel were heavily featured in last night's 'Cosmos' episode, with no mention of Caroline.
The New Telescope That Will Help Confirm Harvard's Big Bang Discovery
It'll have five times the power of the telescope that found gravitational waves.
A Telescope Made of Galaxies Is Helping Astronomers Look at the Young Universe
When you combined gravitational lensing with NASA’s most capable imaging telescope, the results are incredible and significant.
How Space Tech Improves Eye Surgery
An innovation in space telescopes has applications in surgical microscopes too.
Gaze Upon the Internet's First Telescope Archive
We spoke to an astronomy historian who's making sure we never forget about the world's oldest telescopes.