Here’s a fascinating graphic comparisonof the mirrors of optical telescopes since the Yerkes Observatory—a 1893 40-inch refractor in Williams Bay,Wisconsin—to the largest of them all, the 128-foot (39 ...
An online tool now allows users to compare the recent James Webb Space Telescope image with older cosmic images—showing just how powerful NASA's new telescope really is. On Monday NASA released one of ...
The first images from the James Webb Space Telescope are just a preview of the impressive capabilities of NASA’s $10 billion, next-generation observatory. Billed as the successor to the iconic Hubble ...
China has switched on the world's largest radio telescope on Sunday, Sept. 25, but even before its launch, FAST (Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope) has already detected signal from space ...