May 22 What’s making this galaxy shine with the light of 300 trillion suns? By Colleen Shalby In a galaxy far, far away -- specifically 12.5 billion years from Earth -- shines the light of over 300 trillion suns. Continue reading
Nov 25 Watch How a global network of telescopes may give us first glimpse of a black hole By PBS News Hour Even though black holes are vital to our understanding of the universe, no one has ever seen one -- yet. To change this, a team of scientists in northern Chile, is using a network of telescopes around the globe to… Continue watching
Nov 25 How seeing a black hole’s shadow will tell us if Einstein was right By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy Black holes are some of the most exotic objects in our universe. But how do you see something that, by definition, you can't see? The answer will take a telescope the size of the Earth. Continue reading
Sep 10 This telescope is so extreme, the weak of heart need not apply By Joshua Barajas and Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy Deadly altitudes, breathtaking skies, treacherous roads, wild donkeys -- it's all part of working on the most sophisticated telescope in the world. Continue reading
May 02 Star cluster flung from distant galaxy at 2 million mph By Joshua Barajas Astronomers have discovered a cluster of several thousand stars that was ejected out of a distant galaxy at a stellar speed of more than two million miles per hour. The group of “runaway stars,” named HVGC-1 for “hypervelocity globular cluster,”… Continue reading
Feb 06 What Hawking meant when he said ‘there are no black holes’ By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy Last week, Stephen Hawking declared "there are no black holes." What exactly that means has physicists scratching their heads. The problem is 40 years of paradoxes as scientists try to understand how black holes seem to break two rules of… Continue reading
Oct 31 Watch NASA Announces Repair Plans for Aging Hubble Telescope NASA announced Tuesday that it would send a final repair mission to the Hubble Space Telescope, tentatively in 2008, to extend the life of the orbiting observatory to at least 2013. Hubble's senior project scientist discusses the history and future… Continue watching