Observatories
A Pristine View of the Universe… from the Moon
The Hubble Space Telescope has unquestionably shown the benefits of a space-based observatory, but having a telescope far from Earth…
Work Begins on Magellan Giant Telescope
When it's complete, the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) will be the world's largest observatory, with a primary mirror 25.4 metres…
Stromlo Opens Up Again After the Fire
Although Australia's Mt. Stromlo was devastated in January 2003 by wildfires, the first stage of reconstruction is complete, and the…
Arizona Telescope Turned Into a Robot
Engineers have finished converting a telescope in Arizona into a robot. The Peters Automated Infrared Imaging Telescope (PAIRITEL), based at…
Radio Telescopes Around the World Combine in Real Time
European and US astronomers have linked up their radio telescopes for the first time in real-time, through the Internet. The…
Here Come The Thirty Metre Telescopes
When it comes to astronomy, size is everything. The biggest telescope on the planet is the 11-metre Hobby-Eberly on Mount…
It’s Cold, But the View is Great
Researchers from Australia have demonstrated that an observatory in Antarctica can produce images of the sky several times better than…
Radio Astronomy Will Get a Boost With the Square Kilometer Array
It will probe the dark ages before the era of re-ionization, and perhaps before the birth of the first stars.…
Robotic Telescopes Team Up
British scientists are working on a project that would link up robotic telescopes around the world so they could get…
New Instrument Finds its First Supernova
The Supernova Integral Field Spectrograph (SNIFS), a new instrument designed to examine exploding stars, has observed its first target: supernova…