Heads Up: The Brightest Comet of the Year May Light Up the Sky Next Week
The object is designated Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS), as it was first reported by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert ...
MIT Technology Review8 天
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is ready to transform our understanding of the cosmos
The telescope will catalogue billions of new objects and produce a new map of the entire night sky every three days with the ...
Space on MSN14 天
Running Chicken Nebula glows in gorgeous new image from Very Large Telescope in Chile
The image, taken by the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) at the Paranal Observatory in Chile, ...
Palo Alto Weekly8 个月
Massive astronomical camera all set to photograph southern night sky
Photo by Ashwini Gangal. Hope distant galaxies visible from the Chilean night sky are smiling down on Earth, because they’re about to be photographed by SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory’s ...
MIT Technology Review6 天
Vera C. Rubin Observatory: 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2025
The telescope’s massive digital camera was built to take a lot of photos of the sky, in quick succession, for a very long ...
Forbes1 年
What Are The Two Bright ‘Stars’ In The East Every Morning And Evening?
Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. Venus is shining brightly over the European Southern Observatory's La Silla Observatory in Chile. What is that bright white star ...
Forbes10 个月
Why We Need Astronomy Now More Than Ever
Chile’s northern Atacama Desert is a veritable ... Even the most astronomically uneducated look up into the night sky and realize there’s something beyond themselves and this Earth.