Chile-based telescope will search for earliest stars and signs of extraterrestrial life
Dozens of boxes holding mirrors are placed along a remote desert hill in northern Chile as workers make progress in the ...
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NASA's new SPHEREx space telescope to launch in February — it can do what the JWST can't
SPHEREx is slated to launch Feb. 27 on a SpaceX rocket. It is meant to map the entire night sky in infrared — something even the JWST can't exactly do.
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World’s Largest Telescope Faces a New Dire Threat: Light Pollution from Renewable Energy
Observatories in Chile’s Atacama Desert, including the world’s largest optical telescope, could be blinded by light pollution ...
Gorgeous James Webb Space Telescope images land on new U.S. stamps
The U.S. Postal Service has issued a new set of stamps celebrating the James Webb Space Telescope, the most powerful space ...
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The world's largest digital camera is about to be built on top of a mountain in Chile - here's what it will look like
This thing is going to huge. It's just one addition to a class of giant land-based telescopes coming online in the next decade. It will have a lower enclosure 100 feet in diameter, a service and ...
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NASA's new SPHEREx space telescope to launch in February — it can do what the JWST can't
"The booster will be applying its phenomenal capacity of returning once again to land in zone four at Vandenberg ... We'll also see a major ground-based telescope, the Vera Rubin Observatory ...