Tag: Deep Space, Space, Space Telescope
How ‘safe mode’ protects space telescopes like Hubble and TESS
What could bears and space telescopes possibly have in common? Last month, both the Hubble Space Telescope and the Transiting Exoplanet...
Where do all those colors in space telescope images come from?
We’ve all seen beautiful images of outer space, with vivid swirls and bright stars resting on a black abyss. With how quick it is to snap...
Plunge into an immersive IMAX movie featuring the James Webb Space Telescope
In the new IMAX film Deep Sky, a protostar shines from the center of a dark cloud, the phantom galaxy swirls, and the dusty space clouds of...
A 3,200-megapixel digital camera is ready for its cosmic photoshoot
The world’s largest digital camera is officially ready to begin filming “the greatest movie of all time,” according to its makers....
A super pressure balloon built by students is cruising Earth’s skies to find dark matter
High altitude balloons have drawn a lot of fire lately. In February, the US military shot down a spy balloon potentially operated by the...
How hundreds of college students are helping solve a centuries-old mystery about the sun
A team of more than 1,000 astronomers and college students just took a step closer to solving one of the long-lasting mysteries of...
You saw the first image of a black hole. Now see it better with AI.
Astronomy sheds light on the far-off, intangible phenomena that shape our universe and everything outside it. Artificial intelligence sifts...
Super-thin ‘mirror membranes’ could lead the way to bigger space telescopes
It took years of design and engineering toil to successfully get the largest-ever telescope mirror into space. Now, the James Webb Space...
This supermassive black hole sucks big time
Black holes remain among the most enigmatic objects in the universe, but the past few years have seen astronomers develop techniques to...
An Einstein-backed method could help us find smaller exoplanets than ever before
Since 1995 scientists have found more than 5,000 exoplanets—other worlds beyond our solar system. But while space researchers have gotten...
