This giant planet formed in a strange way, scientists find
Astronomers discovered the gas giant planet — dubbed a "hot Jupiter " — in 2016, but have continued to investigate this ...
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Chile-based telescope will search for earliest stars and signs of extraterrestrial life
The boxes are due to be assembled into one giant mirror approximately 1-1/2 times the size of Berlin's Brandenburg Gate. The telescope's primary mirror will measure about 39.3 meters (130 feet ...
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South African telescope discovers a giant galaxy that’s 32 times bigger than Earth’s
These mysterious objects can have masses several million or billion times that of the Sun and are so dense that they warp space time around them. As far as astronomers know, all galaxies harbour a ...
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Chile's Giant Telescope: Peering into the Universe's Origins
The Extremely Large Telescope, under construction in Chile, aims to explore exoplanets for potential life and examine the ...
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World’s Largest Telescope Faces a New Dire Threat: Light Pollution from Renewable Energy
And many of these areas are precisely those the ELT and other in-development giant telescopes were designed to probe, he adds. AES conceived and designed the INNA project in response to Chile’s ...
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The secret recipe of black holes: Study finds they can 'cook' their own meals in space
Supermassive black holes are seen as sources of wanton cosmic destruction, but there may be more to their powerful influence ...
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Giant Radio Galaxy Could Hold 30 Milky Ways, Astronomers Say
Giant radio galaxies are cosmic megastructures that can span millions of light-years, making them some of the largest-known ...
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Work Progresses on Giant Telescope in Chile's Atacama Desert
Work Progresses on Giant Telescope in Chile's Atacama Desert By Rodrigo Gutierrez CERRO ARMAZONES, Chile (Reuters) - Dozens of boxes holding mirrors are placed along a remote desert hill in ...
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From Space to Supersonic: Breakthroughs in Science and Technology
Recent advances in science include a sped-up return of NASA astronauts proposed by Trump and Musk, a historic supersonic test ...
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Houston, we have «Problem» and it’s — a giant radio galaxy spotted by a South African telescope
MeerKAT has already played a key role in uncovering some of the hidden treasures of the southern sky since it became operational in 2018, and in addit ...