“We [will be able to] move quickly and map out very large areas of the sky,” adds Josh Schlieder, the telescope’s wide-field ...

The European Southern Observatory bills its Very Large Telescope array as the world's most advanced optical instrument. Each of the four Unit telescopes, boasting mirrors 27 feet (8.2 meters ...

An curved arrow pointing right. On April 26, the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope achieved “first light” on its new optics system, shooting four lasers into the sky for ...

A mysterious radio signal from a distant planet has sparked excitement among astronomers, hinting at the tantalizing ...

On 19 December 2018, the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO ... in the detection of gamma rays, which are very high-energy electromagnetic radiation emitted by the hottest and most powerful ...

Astronomers have discovered a truly ancient monster: a radio jet 200,000 light-years wide, originating from when the universe ...

Software engineers have been hard at work to establish a common language for a global conversation. The topic—revealing the ...

The favored scheme was an array of relatively small dishes (antennas), with a nearly-random arrangement on the ground extending over about 1 km. This provides a very high-quality beam shape (the small ...

We've searched the vast array of telescope options that ... Save over $90 on this Go-To telescope that comes with a very large aperture and plenty of accessories. It is an older model, but that ...

the future looks bright as radio astronomers prepare for new generations of telescope networks, like the NRAO's ngVLA (next generation Very Large Array) and the ngEHT (The next generation Event ...

One of telescopes is located in North Liberty ... The NRAO also operates the Very Large Array, which is 27 antennas located about 50 miles west of Socorro, New Mexico. The VLA’s signal runs ...