The Einstein ring was discovered when Collett and his team studied NGC 6505, an oval-shaped galaxy located around 600 million ...

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A new telescope could launch as early as late February. SPHEREx will look into deep space and also search for organic ...

Workers in Chile are making progress on the Extremely Large Telescope, planned as one of the most capable astronomical ...

When we visited Yerkes Observatory in 2021, it was closed and faced a daunting road back, yet its director had big plans. It ...

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STORY: Among the remote desert hills of northern Chile lies the aptly named “Extremely Large Telescope.” :: Cerro Armazones, Chile The project, about 60% complete, is planned as one of the most ...

I'm "standing" inside a cavernous galactic space in virtual reality, and with a few quick key strokes on my laptop, I can walk down the paths toward either quasar. At the centers of both ...