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Deepest-Ever Field Image of Giant Galaxy Cluster Is a Brutal Reminder of Your Cosmic Insignificance

Tue, 08/05/2025 - 17:05

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Space & Spaceflight, astrophysics, early universe, galaxy, Telescopes

Don't miss your last chance to get a good look at Comet A3 before it's gone for another 80,000 years

Fri, 10/18/2024 - 15:23

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bright yellow-white comet A3 in space — Comet A3 is bright, bold, and visible to the naked eye.
Dan Bartlett

Science, Comets, comet-a3, Space, Skywatching, stargazing, Neanderthals

13 photos from NASA's most powerful X-ray space telescope reveal the invisible universe

Wed, 07/24/2024 - 17:04

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crab nebula expanding structured clouds of purple red and blue with a bright purple point in the center with a bright jet shooting out it and bright concentric circles around it — The Crab Nebula, the result of a bright supernova explosion witnessed by astronomers in 1054 A.D.

Science, NASA, Space, Telescopes, universe, chandra-x-ray-observatory

These AR Binoculars Will Tell You What You're Seeing in the Night Sky

Fri, 06/28/2024 - 15:00

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Have you ever made it to the end of a hike with a scenic overlook and argued with your friend about the name of a river many miles away? I have. Google Maps wasn’t any help, but perhaps if I had Unistellar’s upcoming Envision AR binoculars in hand to label those faraway landmarks, we could have put that bickering to…

binoculars, astronomical imaging, corrective lenses, Telescopes, Augmented reality, technology internet, telescope

Unistellar Odyssey Telescope Brings Powerful Simplicity to Backyard Astronomy

Thu, 04/25/2024 - 10:48

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Robotic telescopes of various shapes and sizes are hitting the market these days, each promising clear views of the cosmos and ease of use—attributes not often found paired together in a single telescope. Amateur and backyard astronomers are now fully embracing this ongoing, auto-GOTO revolution, but not every…

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Check out stunning photos from the $2 billion space telescope that captures the invisible universe — and that NASA plans to defund

Tue, 04/16/2024 - 10:49

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purple spiral galaxy with lots of purple stars inside and a bright white center — Messier 74, nicknamed "the Phantom Galaxy" for its dimness, comes to life when Chandra revealed its X-ray activity (purple) alongside observations from Hubble and Webb.
X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Optical: NASA/ESA/STScI; IR NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI, J. Lee and the PHANGS-JWST Team; Image Processing: N. Wolk and K. Arcand

Science, NASA, chandra-x-ray-observatory, Space, Telescopes

Scientists built a 3-ton camera with a 5-foot-wide lens to discover hazardous asteroids that NASA can't see

Wed, 04/03/2024 - 13:12

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giant camera black segmented tube with lens inside on a white engineering mount in a cleanroom with a person in a white cleansuit standing at the bottom of the lens that rises about five feet above the person's head — Travis Lange, the deputy project manager of the LSST, shone a flashlight into the LSST Camera, which has a 5-foot-wide lens.
Jacqueline Ramseyer Orrell/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Science, cameras, Asteroids, NASA, Telescopes, dark-matter, dark-energy

Dwarf II Smart Telescope Brings Power and Portability to Backyard Astronomy

Tue, 03/26/2024 - 14:53

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Backyard astrophotography is experiencing a surge in popularity thanks to telescopes becoming more user-friendly and, as a result, actually fun to use. However, cost and portability remain a barrier, making the Dwarf II Smart Telescope a smart, viable option despite some annoying shortcomings.