Could a climate megaproject cloud Chile's unparalleled views of universe?
As night falls on the Atacama desert in northern Chile four giant telescopes turn their gaze towards the star-strewn heavens.
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Largest Structure In The Near Universe Discovered – 130,000 Times More Massive Than Our Galaxy
Mapping the distribution of matter in the universe is an important quest for cosmology and astrophysics. There is a battle going on between the universe's accelerated expansion and gravity trying to ...
A 200,000-Light-Year Jet Ignites New Questions About the Early Cosmos
Astronomers have discovered a massive, double-lobed radio jet stretching 200,000 light-years from a quasar that existed when ...
Astronomers Track a Runaway Star and Its Planet Traveling at Hyperspeed
The system is believed to be traveling at least 1.2 million miles per hour (1.93 million kilometers per hour), according to a ...
Tiny Telescope, Big Discoveries: How ExTrA Hunts for Earth-Like Worlds
Using clever light-detecting techniques, ExTrA searches red dwarf stars for planets that might support life. By studying tiny ...
Space telescope spots rare ‘Einstein ring’ of light around galaxy in our cosmic neighborhood
Europe’s Euclid space telescope has detected a rare halo of bright light around a nearby galaxy. The halo, known as an ...
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Stunning image shows the closest ever Einstein ring
Albert Einstein himself thought that the eponymous Einstein ring would be impossible to observe, but the Euclid telescope has ...
ESA's Euclid spacecraft spots 'stunning' rare Einstein Ring in far off galaxy
A European Space Agency telescope has discovered its first "extremely rare" Einstein ring in a galaxy "not too far away" ...
Nasa using world’s most powerful telescope to examine asteroid that could smash into Earth
Scientists will point the world’s most powerful telescope at the asteroid 2024 YR4, in the hope of understanding whether it ...