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Chinese astronomers have signed on to participate in the development of the world's largest telescope that will be built atop a Hawaii volcano, a group said Tuesday.
Astronomers unveiled the latest batch of Hubble's greatest hits on Wednesday, all taken since the space telescope was upgraded in May during NASA's final shuttle servicing mission.
One of the world's most powerful telescopes opened its shutters for the first time Friday to begin exploring faint light from distant parts of the universe. The Gran Telescopio Canarias, a euro130 million ($185 million) telescope featuring a 34-foot (10.4-meter) reflecting mirror, sits atop an extinct volcano. Its location above cloud cover takes advantage of the pristine skies in the Atlantic Ocean.
Hawaii was chosen Tuesday as the site for the world's biggest telescope, a device so powerful that it will allow scientists to see some 13 billion light years away and get a glimpse into the early years of the universe.
As American astronauts overhauled the aging Hubble, European scientists launched an even larger space telescope toward a far-flung orbit, hoping to help answer two questions: How did the cosmos begin and are we alone in it?
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Just shy of two decades ago, Earthlight gleamed softly along the lower flanks of the bulky winged cylinder orbiting its home planet. As massive as a city bus, the Hubble Space Telescope raced around the night side of Earth. The brilliantly lit cities issued lights from below, while in the atmosphere itself, lightning bolts and streaks from meteors burned fiercely.
Though it looks like a cardboard tube that got left out in the rain, it's a priceless instrument whose owner changed the world. The mottled brown cylinder on display at The Franklin Institute science museum is a 400-year-old telescope used by Galileo Galilei, whose observations of the heavens ultimately changed the face of not only astronomy but all of science.
NASA is going ahead with a plan to restart the flow of science data from the Hubble Space Telescope by routing around circuitry that failed a little more than two weeks ago, officials said Tuesday.
In a Sept. 23 story about Albert Einstein's long-lost telescope going on display, The Associated Press, relying on information from Hebrew University officials, misspelled the surname of the man believed to have built the instrument. His correct name is Zvi Gezari, not Gizeri, his family said.
Albert Einstein's long-lost telescope, forgotten for decades in a Jerusalem storage shed, goes on display this week after three years and $10,000 spent restoring the relic.
NASA launched a telescope Wednesday to scout out elusive, super high-energy gamma rays lurking in the universe.
The scientists behind NASA's three Great Observatories had a great opportunity to show their stuff this week at a gathering of thousands of astronomers from around the world. The good stuff included a wide shot of starbirth in our home galaxy, a second look at a supernova's leftovers, and a break in "the case of the missing dwarf."
Microsoft Corp. launched its WorldWide Telescope late Monday, bringing the free Web-based program for zooming around the universe to a broad audience.
The world's most powerful optical telescope is now operating on southeastern Arizona's Mount Graham, capturing striking images of objects millions of light years away.
In a Feb. 3 story about the boom in giant telescopes, The Associated Press reported erroneously how far back in time current telescopes can see. They can see to when the universe was about 1 billion years old, not back only 1 billion years.
A telescope arms race is taking shape around the world. Astronomers are drawing up plans for the biggest, most powerful instruments ever constructed, capable of peering far deeper into the universe — and further back in time — than ever before.
A project to build a pioneering telescope in Chile got a $30 million boost Thursday with donations from Microsoft chairman Bill Gates and former company executive Charles Simonyi.
Having coaxed all the life they can out of an 8-year-old ultraviolet light-detecting space telescope, scientists will reluctantly turn it off later this month.
One of the world's largest and most powerful telescopes opened its shutters, turned its 34-foot wide mirror toward the skies and captured its first light at a mountaintop on one of Spain's Canary Islands on Saturday.
Google has already planted its flag on Earth, the Moon and Mars. The universe could be next. The Internet search company has struck a partnership with scientists building a huge sky-scanning telescope, with hopes of helping the public access digital footage of asteroids, supernovas and distant galaxies.
An astronaut removes the High Resolution Spectrograph to make way for the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph during the second servicing mission in 1997. The telescope can hold four telephone-booth sized instruments and four piano-sized instruments (Image: NASA)
Some of the most distant galaxies ever seen appear in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field North, a portion of which is shown here. If a new servicing mission is approved, a new instrument called the Wide Field Camera 3 would spot galaxies even more distant, and therefore further back in time (Image: NASA/ESA/S Beckwith/HUDF team)
In the biggest joint Mexico-U.S. scientific venture ever, builders are finishing a monster telescope on top of a volcano that will let astronomers look back 13 billion years and uncover secrets about the creation of the universe.
Hubble Observes LCROSS Impact EventNASA's Hubble Space Telescope has made a series of observations immediately preceding and following the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) Centaur rocket stage and shepherding spacecraft impacts at the lunar south pole, on October 9 at 7:31 and 7:35 a.m. EDT.
17th-century Brueghel paintings trace the early, mysterious history of the telescopeThanks to the much-heralded International Year of Astronomy, this much we know: Galileo used a telescope to observe the moon in 1609.
BBC NEWS | Technology | 'Time telescope' could boost webResearchers have demonstrated a "time telescope" that could squeeze much more information into the data packets sent around the internet. Rather than focusing information-carrying light pulses in space, like a normal lens, it focuses them in time.
Trifid Nebula: A Massive Star FactoryA new view of Trifid Nebula. This massive nebula is a longtime favorite of professional and amateur astronomers. This new picture from Chile is by far the best yet.
Calling All Amateur Astronomers: Help Solve a MysteryA super-bright star is gradually going dim, and scientists want YOU to help them find out why.
Hubble reawakens, snaps image of Jupiter scar - CNN.comThe first images from hubble telescope since being repaired, and updated.
China's First Space Telescope Anticipated To Be Launched In 2012The predicted launch time of China's first space telescope is in 2012, and will be used to observe space black holes, said the chief scientist of the program Thursday
NASA's Fermi Telescope Probes Dozens of PulsarsWith NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, astronomers now are getting their best look at those whirling stellar cinders known as pulsars.
Nearby Star (Betelgeuse) May Be Getting Ready to ExplodeThe nearby, well-known and very bright star may soon explode in a supernova, according to data released by U.C. Berkeley researchers Tuesday. More Articles
Implantable Telescope Helps Restore Vision: Discovery NewsUsually, a telescope ends up inside someone's eye after a tragic accident. A new telescope, surgically implanted into a patient's eye, helps alleviate a tragic accident.
Star Crust 10 Billion Times Stronger than SteelResearch by a theoretical physicist at Indiana University shows that the crusts of neutron stars are 10 billion times stronger than steel or any other of the earth's strongest metal alloys. More Articles
Get Ready Humanity, Because Space Is a Freak ShowLike some kind of massive cosmic toilet bowl, the multitude of galaxies that populate the known Universe are swirling inexplicably toward a tiny 20-degree plane of deep space. More Articles
Endeavour Moves To Launch Pad For Possible Rescue MissionKENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - For what is expected to be the last time in shuttle history, two space shuttles are on two launch pads at the same time as NASA gets ready to launch the final mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope.
19 Years Ago...April 24, 1990: Hubble Becomes Big Eye Above SkyHubble was not the first space telescope but it is by far the most sophisticated, providing earthlings with unprecedented detail and spectacular views of their universe.
Physicists See The Cosmos In A Coffee CupA Duke University professor and his graduate student have discovered a universal principle that unites the curious interplay of light and shadow on the surface of your morning coffee with the way gravity magnifies and distorts light from distant galaxies. More Articles
A Telescope to the Past as Galileo Visits U.S. PHILADELPHIA — It looked like the kind of toy telescope a child might have made with scissors and tape — a lumpy, mottled tube about as long as a golf club and barely wider in girth, the color of 400-year-old cardboard, burning with age. The spyglass, one of two surviving, h …
Super-sized Supernova Explosion Observed Start to Finish Including Black Hole EndingIn the first observation if its kind, scientists at the Weizmann Institute of Science and San Diego State University were able to watch what happens when a star the size of 50 suns explodes.
Spread the joy of astronomy with a GalileoscopeOne of the Cornerstone projects of IYA 2009 is the creation of the Galileoscope, a replica of what Galileo used to view the heavens. This little 'scope sports a glass 50mm (2 inch) lens, tough plastic casing, eyepiece, and a Barlow lens which doubles the magnification.
Space-Time "Ripples" Created by Merging Black HolesTwo newfound black holes on the verge of crashing into each other could be creating "ripples" in the fabric of space-time, astronomers suggest. More Articles
Telescope 'cousins' meet at lastEurope's Herschel and Planck space telescopes have finally come together.
Kepler and the Search for Earth-Like Planets Excellent general coverage of the upcoming Kepler mission to detect Earth like extra-solar planets.
Public can help select Hubble's viewThe operators of the Hubble Space Telescope are letting the public vote on where to point the orbiting observatory.
Earth-hunter telescope prepared for launch on Yahoo! NewsTITUSVILLE, Florida (Reuters) – NASA unveiled a modest telescope on Friday with a sweeping mission -- to discover if there are any Earth-type planets orbiting distant stars.
Zombie Star Spins Like CrazyThe very old star has a dead heart, having exhausted all the fuel that runs thermonuclear fusion. But the star itself goes on spinning about its axis once every 2.6 seconds and generating intense magnetic fields. More Articles
The Englishman who beat GalileoGalileo was beaten to the first historic views of the heavens through a telescope by an Englishman observing near London. The International Year of Astronomy is marking the famous Italian's observations 400 years ago.
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