Prime focus spectrograph on the Subaru Telescope to begin science operations in February
Researchers have finished equipping the Subaru Telescope with a new special "compound eye," culminating several years of ...
A rare look at NASA’s next sharp-eyed space telescope
NASA's Roman Space Telescope is preparing for launch in 2027, with a mission to study distant galaxies and explore dark ...
NASA joins telescope, instruments to Roman spacecraft
Technicians have successfully integrated NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope's payload—the telescope, instrument carrier ...
NASA's next large space telescope passes important milestone
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is due to launch in spring 2027 to search for exoplanets, among other things. It has ...
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James Webb telescope's MIRI instrument goes super-cold
It is perhaps the very definition of cool. The Mid-Infrared Instrument on the James Webb Space telescope is now at its super-low operating temperature. The UK-assembled instrument has reached a ...
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Telescope tracks 35 million galaxies in Dark Energy hunt
A super telescope has begun the most detailed survey of the Universe ever undertaken ... an accelerated expansion of the Universe. The instrument effectively contains 5,000 mini-telescopes.