Telescope

The largest astronomical camera ever built: First images from powerful new telescope

Rubin Observatory will map the southern sky every three nights over the next decade.

 The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile.
 James Webb Space Telescope discovers most distant galaxy MoM-z14.

James Webb Space Telescope discovers most distant galaxy MoM-z14

 The Crab Nebula.

NASA unveils new Hubble images capturing cosmic wonders

 Artist's impression of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.

Webb telescope documents alien planet's death plunge into a star


China proposes giant radio telescope on Moon's far side with 7,200 antennas by 2035

The project aims to investigate the 'Cosmic Dark Ages,' the period from the Big Bang until the formation of the first stars.

 Landing site of Chang'e 4 on the far side of the Moon.

James Webb Space Telescope captures first images of Neptune's auroras

The planet's tilted magnetic field causes auroras far from its rotation poles.

 James Webb Space Telescope captures first images of Neptune's auroras.

NASA's SPHEREx telescope captures 100,000 celestial objects in one infrared image

NASA said the telescope is expected to collect data on more than 450 million galaxies and more than 100 million stars in the Milky Way by surveying the entire sky in 102 infrared wavelengths.

 NASA's new space telescope SPHEREx delivers first infrared images capturing up to 100,000 celestial objects in a single exposure.

James Webb telescope reveals oxygen in galaxy from 13.4 billion years ago

Light from JADES-GS-z14-0 has taken 13.4 billion years to reach Earth, revealing a chemically mature galaxy when the universe was less than 300 million years old.

 James Webb telescope reveals oxygen in galaxy from 13.4 billion years ago.

Underwater Mediterranean Sea telescope records most energetic neutrino ever observed

The KM3NeT telescope comprises two detectors, ARCA and ORCA, utilizing seawater to capture Cherenkov light—a bluish glow produced when neutrinos interact with water molecules.

 Underwater Mediterranean Sea telescope records most energetic neutrino ever observed.

Euclid telescope discovers rare Einstein ring around nearby galaxy NGC 6505

Gravitational lensing occurs when the gravity of a massive object, like a galaxy, warps the fabric of spacetime, bending the light from a more distant background object.

 The ring of light surrounding the centre of the galaxy NGC 6505, captured by ESA’s Euclid telescope.

Webb Telescope reveals intricate structures in Cassiopeia A supernova

A light echo is created when a star explodes or erupts, flashing light into surrounding clumps of dust and causing them to shine in an ever-expanding pattern.

 NASA's James Webb Space Telescope reveals intricate structures in Cassiopeia A supernova light echo.

Infrared telescopes discover hundreds of previously undetected supermassive black holes

Using IRAS and NuSTAR telescopes, scientists identify hundreds of obscured black holes hidden behind gas and dust.

 Infrared telescopes discover hundreds of previously undetected supermassive black holes.

Webb telescope captures 'stunning' images of 19 spiral galaxies

The images let scientists resolve the structure of the clouds of dust and gas from which stars and planets form at a high level of detail in galaxies considered galactic satellites of the Milky Way.

 Spiral galaxy NGC 1300, located 69 million light-years away from Earth, is seen in an undated image from the James Webb Space Telescope.

Saturn visible in Israel's night sky at its brightest

While the rings won't be visible to the naked eye any small backyard telescope should show the rings, which will appear as bright oval-shaped disks.

A montage of Saturn and its moons as captured by the Voyager 1 probe

NASA’s Webb Telescope captures the dying star ‘Ring Nebula’ in new detail

The images were captured by the James Webb Space Telescope, which was developed to view objects too old, distant, or faint for the Hubble Telescope. 

 NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has observed the well-known Ring Nebula in unprecedented detail. Formed by a star throwing off its outer layers as it runs out of fuel, the Ring Nebula is an archetypal planetary nebula.