Science Apr 20 Gaia space observatory bids farewell after a decade of mapping the stars By John Yang, Harry Zahn
Science Feb 10 In our cosmic neighborhood, space telescope spots rare ‘Einstein ring’ of light around galaxy The halo, known as an Einstein ring, encircles a galaxy 590 million light-years away. By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press
Science Jan 19 Galactic photo shoot captures over 3 billion stars A dark-energy camera on a telescope in Chile made the observations over two years, focusing on the Southern Hemisphere sky. Results were released this week. By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press
Science Jan 30 Hawaii telescope reveals details of the sun’s turbulent surface A telescope in Hawaii is revealing the turbulent gas surface of the sun in what scientists called unprecedented detail. By Malcolm Ritter, Associated Press
Science Apr 10 Watch 6:57 What the first photograph of a black hole can reveal about space A black hole is a cosmic abyss with gravity of such intensity that nothing, not even light, escapes it. Now, for the first time, a team of astronomers has released an image of the space anomaly, which is created when…
Apr 16 WATCH LIVE: TESS, NASA’s new exoplanet hunter, launches on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket By Jason Steffen, The Conversation NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) will monitor more than 200,000 stars to discover thousands of exoplanets, ranging from Earth-sized to gas giants. Continue reading
Dec 21 Watch 8:42 The sacred and the scientific clash on Hawaii’s Mauna Kea By PBS News Hour Over a thousand years ago, Polynesians followed the stars in the Mauna Kea sky on their path to Hawaii. Those stars are now of interest to astronomers, who believe the mountain's summit is the perfect spot to build a giant,… Continue watching
Dec 14 Watch 7:54 This sacred mountain is the focal point of a fight over a giant telescope By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Jun 06 World’s largest radio telescope faces retirement due to stagnant funding By Sarah Scoles, Scientific American The National Science Foundation is considering pulling its support from the famous Arecibo radio dish in Puerto Rico… Continue reading
Jun 04 Looks like there’s a party in deep space and Hubble’s got the photos By Jenny Marder If a tractor full of confetti was launched into the night sky and then beamed with a strobe light, it might look something like the Hubble Space Telescope image above. It is, according to NASA, among the most colorful of… Continue reading