Amazing Images of The Deep Space Captured in 2003 Using the James Webb Telescope
NASA’s Chandra, Webb Combine for Arresting Views (M74)
Chandra: NASA/CXC/SAO, XMM: ESA/XMM-Newton; IR: JWST: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI, Spitzer: NASA/JPL/CalTech; Optical: Hubble: NASA/ESA/STScI, ESO; Image Processing: L. Frattare, J. Major, and K. Arcand
The James Webb Space Telescope, the biggest and most technologically sophisticated space telescope ever built, was launched in December 2021 following three decades of painstaking development. Continue reading »
The DKIST Telescope on Top of An Extinct Volcano Has Taken the Most Detailed Pictures of The Sun
If a picture is worth a thousand words, the images and data produced by Inouye Solar Telescope will write the next chapters of solar physics research, including two new images released in celebration of this week’s events. Continue reading »
The Model of James Webb Space Telescope
A full scale model of the James Webb Space telescope is displayed at the South by Southwest Interactive Festival in Austin, Texas. As big as a tennis court and as tall as a four-storey building, the James Webb Space Telescope is the successor to the Hubble telescope and the largest space telescope ever built. (EPA/NASA/Chris Gunn)
Alien Hunter: World’s Biggest Telescope will be Built in Chile
The European Extremely Large Telescope, also known as the alien hunter, will be the world’s largest optical telescope. Its mirror alone will be 137 feet wide, half the size of a regular football field.
The whole structure will weigh 2,800 tonnes, making it the heaviest of all telescopes as well. It will gather 13 times more light than existing earthbound telescopes and can even provide images 16 times sharper than the Hubble Space Telescope’s. European astronomers took years to decide on the final design of the alien hunter telescope.
“At the end of the three-year final design study, we will know exactly how everything is going to be built, including a detailed costing,” said Catherine Cesarsky, the European Southern Observatory’s director general. “We then hope to start construction and have it ready by 2017, when we can install instruments and use it.”
The E-ELT will find its home in Chile, where Foreign Minister Alfredo Moreno signed an accord with the European Southern Observatory. The Chilean government will donate 189 acres of land around the Cerro Armazones mountain. And in return, they will have 10 percent of the observing time on the huge telescope.
Construction will begin in early 2012 and the target year for operation is in 2018. The revolutionary telescope is designed to see the deepest parts of the universe and provide clear images of planets, stars and other galaxies.
This architectural concept drawing of ESO’s planned European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) shows the world’s largest planned optical telescope gazing heavenwards. Slated to begin operations early in the next decade, the E-ELT will tackle the biggest scientific challenges of our time. (IBITImes/Swinburne Astronomy Production) Continue reading »
Frosty the Telescope
A telescope was covered with snow on Wednesday at the peak of the Zugspitze, the highest mountain in Germany. (Andreas Gebert/Zuma Press)
