Telescope

NASA reveals plan to create a radio telescope on the farside of the Moon

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A lunar crater on the farside of the Moon could be turned into a new radio telescope resembling the Death Star from Star Wars, under new plans from NASA.  Funding for the project has come from the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Programme, designed to support potentially game changing projects. If the telescope is ever … Read more

NASA tests giant 21-foot mirror on James Webb telescope for the first time in simulated zero-gravity

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NASA tests giant 21-foot mirror on James Webb telescope for the first time in simulated zero-gravity as it tries to find a successor to the Hubble NASA tested the giant mirror attached to its nascent James Webb telescope It simulated the zero-gravity conditions it will encounter in space The craft, however, will still likely not … Read more

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope spots an elusive giant black hole

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An elusive mid-sized black hole that was tearing apart a wayward star has been spotted by astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope. A team of astronomers found the stellar object – known as an ‘intermediate-mass black hole’ – 740 million light-years away using Hubble and X-ray observatories.  Experts from the University of New Hampshire in … Read more