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Aging gracefully: The Hubble Telescope is in 'excellent technical condition' on its 35th birthday, its chief scientist says
By teaming up with the James Webb Space Telescope, or by scientists delving into its long history of observations, Hubble is ...
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Incredible photo catches the sun rising behind the world's largest telescope
The massive dome measures 305 feet (93 meters) in diameter, or about the size of a football field and stands 263 feet (80 ...
Largest imaging spectro-polarimeter achieves first light at solar telescope
The U.S. National Science Foundation Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, the world's most powerful solar telescope, operated by ...
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India’s largest optical telescope helps observe smaller black holes
A team of astrophysicists in India have traced an intermedia black hole (IMBH) located in a faint galaxy about 4.3 million ...
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Can Hubble still hang? How the space telescope compares to its successors after 35 years of cosmic adventures
On Thursday, April 24, 2025, the Hubble Space Telescope will celebrate 35 years in space. Can it still hold its own and prove ...
New solar instrument captures first high-resolution images at world's largest telescope
The Institut für Sonnenphysik (KIS) located in Freiburg, Germany, has installed a high-precision measuring instrument for the ...
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Fixing the Hubble Space Telescope: A timeline of NASA's shuttle servicing missions
Hubble was built with a number of instruments onboard, including the Wide Field Planetary Camera (WFPC), the Goddard High ...
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World's largest solar telescope turns on powerful new camera, revealing breathtaking image of a continent-size sunspot
The Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, the world's largest solar telescope, can see the sun in unprecedented detail. Here is ...
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Indian telescopes shed light on elusive ‘middleweight’ black holes
Using the 3.6m Devasthal Optical Telescope (DOT) -- India's largest optical telescope --, the team found that gas clouds orbit the black hole at a distance of 125 light-minutes (around 2.25 ...
See the terrifying face of the sun, captured by a brand-new instrument
The sun might be responsible for light and life on Earth, but it can also be terrifying. The first image from the brand new Visible Tunable Filter (VTF) instrument at the Daniel K. Inouye Solar ...
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First Image From Upgraded Solar Telescope Shows Sun Like Never Before
After years of development, researchers at the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope in Hawaii have fired up their newest tool, the Visible Tunable Filter (VTF), and captured its first images of our sun.