NASA will launch the GUSTO balloon telescope over Antarctica, which will create a 3D map of the Milky Way
The Explorers Program-funded mission will spend at least 55 days in the skies above Antarctica. NASA is preparing to launch an experiment called GUSTO (short for Galactic/Extragalactic…
A private company is going to “resurrect” Spitzer – the last of the four “Great Observatories” of NASA
Space technology company Rhea Space Activity has received a $250,000 grant from the US Space Force to develop a robotic rescue mission for the 2 AU Spitzer…
NASA will stop naming telescopes after famous people – this was preceded by the homophobic scandal around “James Webb”
NASA is radically changing the established approach to naming prominent space missions – the space agency no longer recommends using the names of certain famous people for…
Closest to Earth. Astronomers have discovered two “invisible” black holes located at a distance of 1560 and 3800 light years from us
The black holes, named Gaia BH1 and Gaia BH2, were discovered by the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Gaia spacecraft. Gaia BH1 is just 1,560 light-years from Earth…
The James Webb telescope has found ancient galaxies that theoretically should not exist. Their age is more than 13 billion years
The James Webb Telescope, which began operating last year, is giving us sharper images of celestial objects, revealing their hidden features, and looks like it could completely…
The Hubble telescope has shown how a supermassive black hole devours a small star – a unique event that happens several times every 100,000 years.
Some stars say goodbye to life by burning up and exploding as supernovae, while others blow up and eject material before contracting and cooling. However, there are…
China will build Asia’s largest optical telescope with a James Webb mirror, the project is estimated at $69-84 million.
Peking University wants to build the largest optical telescope in Asia and close the gap in astronomical capabilities with the rest of the world. It is planned…
In Australia, the construction of the world’s largest radio telescope SKA has begun – it will help in the study of the early universe and dark energy
Australia has begun construction of its part of the radio telescope as part of the international Square Kilometer Array (SKA) project. According to the plan of the…
The black hole tore apart the star and united astronomers from around the world – the discovery would not have been possible without cooperation and fast-reacting telescopes.
Such an event had not been observed for more than a decade: a burst of light from the center of a distant galaxy was bright enough to…
James Webb took a detailed look at the atmosphere of the exoplanet WASP-39b, located 700 light years from Earth.
James Webb, NASA’s modern space telescope, gives us a clearer picture of planets far beyond our solar system and allows us to study their atmospheres in more…