Observatories in Chile’s Atacama Desert, including the world’s largest optical telescope, could be blinded by light pollution and other unwanted side effects from the proposed construction of a renewa ...

The European Southern Observatory bills its Very Large Telescope array as the world's most advanced optical instrument. Each of the four Unit telescopes, boasting mirrors 27 feet (8.2 meters ...

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This is not an incremental step forward: the Allen Telescope Array was constructed to increase the stellar reconnaissance for artificial signals by orders of magnitude. It is a very large step for ...

North Liberty’s best kept secret looks like a giant satellite dish nestled in a wooded area between North Liberty and ...

the future looks bright as radio astronomers prepare for new generations of telescope networks, like the NRAO's ngVLA (next generation Very Large Array) and the ngEHT (The next generation Event ...

This revelation was made possible by the combined power of WEAVE, LOFAR, the Very Large Array (VLA), and the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). “The details of the shock and the unfolding ...

An curved arrow pointing right. On April 26, the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope achieved “first light” on its new optics system, shooting four lasers into the sky for ...

On 19 December 2018, the Cherenkov Telescope ... are very high-energy electromagnetic radiation emitted by the hottest and most powerful objects in the Universe—such as supermassive black holes, ...

A supermassive black hole has been discovered by astronomers that's shooting a giant energy beam directly at Earth.