New telescope could finally prove there is an elusive 'Planet X' in our solar system
There are eight official planets (sorry, Pluto) in our solar system: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and ...
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Could the Seestar S50 be your first imaging telescope?
This ZWO scope promises that anyone can capture high-quality images of stars, nebulae, and even the Sun, no imaging knowledge ...
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The Most Powerful Telescopes in the World Can See the Past
Location: American space telescope orbiting the Sun Launched: 2003 Cost: $776 million Namesake: Lyman Spitzer, astronomer Specialties: Infrared observations of cool, remote features in space from ...
Big Rockets, a Big Telescope and Big Changes in Space Await in 2025
Formerly the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, the observatory was renamed in 2020 to honor Vera Rubin, who died at 88 in 2016 ...
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Observations suggest sun-like stars emit superflares once per century
Modern space telescopes observe thousands ... help in the endeavor of forecasting. From its observation position in space, it will look at the sun from the side and notice sooner than Earth ...
Stars Like Our Sun Explode With ‘Superflares’ Every 100 Years, Study Suggests
“We wanted to determine how often our Sun produces superflares; however, the duration of direct solar observations is relatively short,” Valeriy Vasilyev, from the Max Planck Institute for Solar ...
In 'groundbreaking' study, astronomers detect record number of stars in distant galaxy
Astronomers used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to reveal 44 stars in a galaxy so far away, its light dates to when the ...
In "groundbreaking discovery," Webb telescope spots record number of stars in distant galaxy
A phenomenon called gravitational lensing turned a galaxy into a "hall of mirrors of cosmic proportions," allowing for the discovery.