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How does the camera on the James Webb Space Telescope work and see so far out? – Kieran G., age 12, Minnesota Imagine a ...
On May 20, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope sent its first image to Earth. This photo turned out to be 50% sharper than ...
L3Harris in Rochester played a pivotal role in building the Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s massive secondary mirror.
The brand new Vera Rubin telescope is about to begin its 10-year mission to offer the newest cosmic perspective we've had in ...
Readers doubtless know that metals expand when heated. As explained in a NASA blog post that’s a problem for space telescopes because if their components warm and expand it can mean that the shape of ...
The first images from the telescope were released earlier this week, and it uses a 3,200-megapixel camera the size of a car.
Out of this World Exploration of our mysterious universe took a giant leap forward after scientists harnessing NASA's James ...
Take a deep breath: the universe is not just big it’s mind-bogglingly, practically scandalously huge. And it’s growing. A ...
The Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT), an enormous ground-based telescope currently under construction in Chile's Atacama Desert ...
This observatory was built to help scientists and astronomers to study the cosmos, and just in its first moments online, it ...
Data scientist Shaowei Ying thinks like a policymaker, builds like an entrepreneur and his leadership path's shaped by ...
The light that the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope collected to create this image reached the telescope after a journey of ...