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This makes it appear correspondingly smaller through a telescope—infinitesimally smaller, in fact, appearing as only a point ...

It’s been a well-worn gag for years among astronomers: The James Webb Space Telescope is scheduled to launch later this year. And always will be. Well, that joke is less potent now. Early on Christmas ...

Observations of the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way, Sagittarius A*, collected by the James Webb Space ...

If you're wondering what kind of telescope you need to see Saturn and Jupiter, you're halfway to the answer. Although either of the two main types of telescope — refractors and reflectors — can be ...

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One of the largest telescopes ever built is one step closer to completion. On June 12, the National Science Foundation announced that the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) is entering the final design ...

How can a sunshade on NASA’s Roman Space Telescope help protect the multi-billion-dollar instrument to conduct cutting-edge science? This is what NASA engineers hope to find out as they recently ...

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"We were amazed by the fact that these observatories can detect about 100 black holes just 250 million years after the Big Bang. Such detections would greatly help to constrain black hole formation ...

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