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Backyard radio telescope
Sunday, August 10, 2025 by Richard Harris
To celebrate a major milestone, the amatuer astronomer Angela Collier decided to take on something many space enthusiasts only dream about, building a working radio telescope in the backyard. What began as a casual idea turned into a hands-on citizen science project involving soldering, assembl...
Gravitational wave observatory prototype telescope revealed
Friday, October 25, 2024 by Richard Harris
NASA has unveiled the first look at a full-scale prototype for six telescopes that will facilitate space-based detection of gravitational waves—ripples in space-time caused by merging black holes and other cosmic phenomena—in the coming decade. NASA reveals prototype telescope for gra...
Most distant Milky-Way-like galaxy discovered
Thursday, October 17, 2024 by Richard Harris
A recent observation by the Very Large Telescope (VLT), operated by the European Southern Observatory (ESO), has provided remarkable insights into the merger of two galaxy clusters, Abell 115. Located over two billion light-years away, the system's complex structure and dynamics offer a glimpse ...
Supermassive black hole duo found by NASAs Hubble Chandra
Thursday, September 12, 2024 by Richard Harris
For all practical purposes, stars traveling across space never smash into each other. The ratio between a starlike sun's diameter and its distance to the next neighboring star is about 1:10 million. Galaxies do collide though. The separation between our Milky Way and neighboring Andromeda galaxy...