On Thursday 27 March, the European Space Agency (ESA) sent its last messages to the Gaia Spacecraft. They told Gaia to shut ...

On Thursday 27 March, the European Space Agency (ESA) sent its last messages to the Gaia Spacecraft . They told Gaia to shut ...

Using a telescope at Kitt Peak, scientists have produced the largest 3D map of the universe ever made and uncovered ...

In addition to the X-ray range which was of most interest to the Polish-German researchers, the optical and ultraviolet ... division is possible. Indeed, diagrams showing the entire energy ...

In addition to the X-ray range which was of most interest to the Polish-German researchers, the optical and ultraviolet ... division is possible. Indeed, diagrams showing the entire energy ...

We investigate the greatest mysteries in the world of science and technology and bring you their most interesting and bizarre ...

Astronomical telescopes ... A ray (3) striking the mirror at the optical axis is reflected at an angle equal to the angle of incidence. The ray diagram below uses three reflected beams to ...

But even though I’m a radio astronomer and Gaia was an optical telescope, looking at the same wavelengths of light our eyes can see, I use Gaia data almost every single day. I used it today to ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of a star and a spiral galaxy, both in the constellation Virgo. But the photo is ...

The strange sight is actually two galaxies, with the light of the second warped around the one at the front as a result of ...

New optical technologies have revolutionized astronomy, from the invention of the telescope 400 years ago to more recent developments of adaptive optics and segmented mirrors. The next disruptive ...