A new telescope — VISTA (the Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy) — has just started work at ESO’s Paranal Observatory and has made its first release of pictures. VISTA is a survey ...
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to [email protected]. How does the camera on the James Webb Space ...
Larger telescopes are better because we can see better and capture more light, so NASA is developing liquid based space telescopes that would let us build 50 meter telescopes for the cost of 10 meter ...
University of Arizona Regents Professor Marcia Rieke has won a $500,000 science prize for her work on the James Webb Space Telescope and other contributions to astronomy. The nonprofit Gruber ...