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The United Kingdom intends to build the world’s largest ground-based optical telescope, the Very Large Telescope (ELT), according to a recent bulletin from the National Center for Astronomical Technology. It is planned that the first instrument to be used on the telescope will be created by this institution. The construction of the giant facility, the […]
The Event Horizon Telescope team has published a new, most detailed image of the black hole M87, which was created using an additional telescope and independent data collected in 2018. The team of the telescope reported this on its website. The previous image was taken in 2017, but with the new improvements, the team has […]
NASA astronomers have discovered an unexpected “signal” coming from outside our galaxy that they cannot explain. This was reported by Science Alert. According to Francis Reddy of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, it was “an unexpected and as yet unexplained feature outside our galaxy.” The powerful Fermi Space Telescope can detect gamma rays, which are […]
About 2,500 light-years away are the remnants of a dying star in the shape of a ring, forming a nebula with the same name – and now, new photos from the James Webb Telescope allow us to see it in more detail. The Ring Nebula, also called NGC 6720 and Messier 57, is a gaseous […]
As the researchers emphasize, the images reveal complex details of the formation of stars and planetary systems. The James Webb Telescope was hard at work this weekend studying the amazing inner region of the Orion Nebula, Inverse reports. Orion is a constellation in the night sky that can be identified by a ‘belt’ of three […]