A century of looking up: LA’s Astronomical Society turns 100

Founded in 1926, the Los Angeles Astronomical Society marked its centennial with a celebration at Griffith Observatory on ...
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Check out NASA’s new space telescope

Next week, the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center will be unveiling its newest space telescope: the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. The Roman telescope was originally called the Wide Field Infrared ...
Tioga Publishing

Man fascinated by space sets up observatory in pub garden

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NASA’s plan to build a telescope on the moon is raising big questions

NASA is exploring the idea of building a telescope on the Moon, and the concept could reshape how space is observed. What makes the plan so striking is that the Moon’s surface could offer advantages ...
Engadget

Webb and Hubble telescopes combine forces for a new view of Saturn

A side-by-side-comparison of photos captured of Saturn from the Webb telescope and the Hubble telescope. (NASA/ESA/CSA) The ESA, NASA and CSA have released new images of Saturn captured by the James ...
AOL

One of the UK’s richest people is building a telescope to find the ‘architecture of the universe’

Scientists are building the biggest telescope of its kind to try and find the “architecture of the universe”. The new MOTHRA telescope hopes to reveal the “cosmic web”, which huge network of gas and ...
SpaceNews

SSTL to build spacecraft for private space telescope

WASHINGTON — Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. (SSTL), a British company best known for developing small satellites, will help build a large, privately funded space telescope. SSTL announced March 9 it ...
New York Post

James Webb Telescope captures dramatic images of dying star

NASA’s James Webb Telescope captured an astonishing photograph of a star in outer space recently. In the latest footage captured by the James Webb Telescope, a nebula has been revealed surrounding a ...
Engadget

New Webb Telescope photos show off the Exposed Cranium Nebula

It's always a fun day for the space nerds when a NASA team has new images to share from the James Webb Space Telescope. Today's pair has brains on the brain, with a look at the fittingly named Exposed ...
Hawaii News Now

Haleakala eyed for 7 more telescopes despite opposition

HALEAKALĀ (HawaiiNewsNow) - The U.S. Air Force is moving forward with plans to build seven more telescopes on Haleakalā, drawing opposition from those who consider the mountain sacred. “Haleakalā is a ...
AOL

The Quest to Build a Radio Telescope That Can Hear the Cosmic Dark Ages

Isolation dictates where we go to see into the far reaches of the universe. The Atacama Desert of Chile, the summit of Mauna Kea in Hawaii, the vast expanse of the Australian Outback—these are where ...
Ars Technica

The race to build a super-large ground telescope is likely down to two competitors

I have been writing about the Giant Magellan Telescope for a long time. Nearly two decades ago, for example, I wrote that time was “running out” in the race to build the next great optical telescope ...