A Giant Leap for Astronomy: Telescope for NASA’s Roman Mission Complete
NASA's Roman Space Telescope has received its Optical Telescope Assembly, paving the way for its mission to explore the ...
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Here are some telescope ideas for gift giving this year
Over the quarter century I’ve been writing this column, I've been flabbergasted by the advances in telescopes for backyard ...
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Roman Primary Mirror (IMAGE)
In this photo, optical engineer Bente Eegholm inspects the surface of the primary mirror for NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. This 7.9-foot (2.4-meter) mirror is a major component of the ...
Latest findings from the South Pole Telescope bolster standard cosmological model
Roughly 400,000 years after the Big Bang, the universe cooled just enough to allow photons to escape from the primordial ...
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NASA’s Roman Telescope gets new tech to hunt for alien worlds around distant suns
The Roman Coronagraph Instrument, designed to block starlight, will help scientists detect faint light from exoplanets.