All posts tagged "telescope"
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Astronomy and Space
Spitzer Space Telescope begins ‘Beyond’ phase
August 25, 2016This artist’s concept shows NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope. Spitzer begins its ”Beyond” mission phase on Oct....
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Astronomy and Space
World’s biggest telescope meets world’s second fastest supercomputer
August 21, 2016Chinese Supercomputer Tianhe-2. Credit: Prof. Yutong Lu A prototype part of the software system to manage...
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Astronomy and Space
China’s lunar-based telescope observes a binary star system
August 7, 2016The observed (open circles) and theoretical (solid line) light curve of V921 Her. Theoretical light curve...
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Astronomy and Space
China completes world’s largest radio telescope
July 10, 2016The FAST telescope. Credit: EPA Boasting half a kilometre in diameter, it is the largest telescope...
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Astronomy and Space
Earth-size telescope tracks the aftermath of a star being swallowed by a supermassive black hole
July 5, 2016This artist’s impression shows the remains of a star that came too close to a supermassive...
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Astronomy and Space
Desert telescope stakes out supermassive black hole
June 15, 2016Telescopes have never seen a black hole, and the world’s brightest minds are unable to reconcile...
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Astronomy and Space
Fermi telescope helps link cosmic neutrino to blazar blast
April 27, 2016Fermi LAT images showing the gamma-ray sky around the blazar PKS B1424-418. Brighter colors indicate greater...
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Astronomy and Space
Fermi telescope poised to pin down gravitational wave sources
April 17, 2016This image, taken in May 2008 as the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope was being readied for...