World's largest telescope gets its protective shell (photos)
The European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) — the world's largest visible- and infrared-light ...
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World's largest telescope threatened by light pollution from renewable energy project
ESO estimates the complex will leak as much light pollution as a city with a population of about 20,000. Parts of the ...
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Hawaii Has The Largest Reflector Telescope In The US But It's Not Run By Who You Think
Giant ground-based reflector telescopes do much of astronomy's heavy lifting, although the U.S.'s largest in Hawaii is not ...
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World’s largest telescope faces risk from renewable energy project, warn scientists
Astronomers are raising concerns about the impact of light pollution from a renewable energy project on the world’s most ...
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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope creates largest photomosaic ever made of "train wreck" Andromeda galaxy with over 2.5 billion pixels
The magnificent Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31), stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way, and ...
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NASA discovers 'nightmare world' where it rains glass to cause 'death by 1,000 cuts'
The giant exoplanet, named HD 189733 b, is 11% bigger than Jupiter and sits 64.5 light-years away from our Solar System - but ...
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Fastest disintegrating world ever seen 'spills its guts' for NASA's exoplanet hunter
"The rate at which the planet is evaporating is utterly cataclysmic, and we are incredibly lucky to be witnessing the final hours of this dying planet." ...
Industrial Complex Proposal Threatens Some of the World’s Clearest Skies for Astronomy
Chile's Atacama Desert is home to some of the best Earth-based observatories, though an energy company is throwing a wrench ...
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NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope Was Never Meant to Look at the Sun. Astronomers Tried It Anyway
A little-known chapter of the Hubble Space Telescope’s history is a reminder of the risks of looking at the sun ...
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Rubin Observatory aces 1st image tests, gets ready to use world's largest digital camera
The Rubin Observatory will eventually hold the world's largest digital camera. It's therefore a good sign it has aced its ...
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NASA wants a 'Super-Hubble' space telescope to search for life on alien worlds
Lee Feinberg, HWO's principal architect based at Goddard, said in a separate presentation that NASA is currently envisioning ...
World's largest telescopes threatened by renewable energy project's light pollution
European Southern Observatory Director General Xavier Barcons told Space.com that astronomers expect the project to brighten the sky by up to 10 percent around the observatory.