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Observable Space wins contract after successful venture funding
Saturday, May 30, 2026 by Richard Harris
Observable Space grew out of PlaneWave Instruments and is known in the astronomy community for building some of the finest amateur and observatory class telescopes. Today the company also develops optical systems for laser communications and space domain awareness. It has raised $90 million dollars ...
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...
NSF-DOE Rubin first look
Tuesday, June 24, 2025 by Richard Harris
The NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory, a major new scientific facility jointly funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science, will release its first imagery today at a livestreamed event in Washington, D.C. The imagery will show cosmic pheno...