NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has proven to be one of the most powerful tools in the agency's arsenal for over a decade and a half, giving us gorgeous views of distant objects using the telescope's ...
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, one of the agency's original four "Great Observatories," will execute a final set of commands Thursday, quietly shutting down and putting itself to sleep after more ...
The ESPRESSO instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope in Chile has used the combined light of all four of the 8.2-meter Unit Telescopes for the first time. Combining light from the Unit Telescopes in ...
NASA is flipping the switch on the Spitzer Space Telescope today. The observatory has made groundbreaking discoveries about the universe since its launch in 2003, from imaging some of the oldest stars ...
It’s hard to overstate how awesome telescopes are. More than any other scientific instrument, telescopes represent “science”—and every geeky kid wants one to see the rings of Saturn with his or her ...