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Satellite constellations could obscure most space telescope observations by late 2030s: 'That part of the image will be forever lost'

"The natural question that comes up is: how many more space telescopes will be affected when all these constellations are ...
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James Webb Space Telescope discovers a hot Jupiter exoplanet leaking twin gas tails that defy explanation

Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to discover that a distant "hot Jupiter" planet has two ...

K-DRIFT pathfinder: A compact telescope for observing faint galactic structures

Conventional telescopes are limited in detecting low-surface-brightness (LSB) structures, which are essential for studying ...
The Daily Galaxy on MSN

15 times sharper than Hubble: This giant telescope will reveal the universe in unimaginable detail!

The Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), now under construction in the Chilean Andes, is set to revolutionize the field of ...
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Telescope with world’s largest digital camera will be a ‘game-changer’ for astronomy

On a mountaintop in northern Chile, the world’s largest digital camera is preparing to power up. Its mission is simple yet ambitious — to photograph the entire night sky in extreme detail and unlock ...

Light from satellites will ruin majority of some space telescope images, study says

Astronomers have long been concerned about reflections from satellites showing up in images taken by telescopes and other ...

Satellite boom is a 'growing threat' to space telescopes: NASA study

A new NASA-led study found that the increasing number of satellites in low-Earth orbit could ruin up to 96% of images from ...

After 10 years of delay, the controversial Thirty Meter Telescope may finally get built — in Spain

A long-delayed project to build the largest telescope in the Northern Hemisphere atop Mauna Kea in Hawaii has been given new ...
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Astronomers spot a brown dwarf and huge exoplanet in Subaru telescope’s first discoveries

Astronomers using the Subaru Telescope discover an exoplanet and a brown dwarf, offering new insights and a key target for NASA’s upcoming Roman Telescope ...

Satellite constellations may ruin up to 96% of astronomy pictures even from telescopes in space

NASA's report, published in Nature, predicts that around 40% of all Hubble images will have at least one satellite streak in ...
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Why do people look into space with telescopes but not binoculars?

Go outside right now. What’s the farthest thing you can see? A tree? A bird? What about the Moon? It’s 250,000 miles away. The Sun is 400 times farther than that, at nearly 100 million miles (but ...
The Economist

The Extremely Large Telescope will transform astronomy

It is the colours of a sunset that inspire Joseph Anderson, an astronomer at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in the high Atacama desert, in northern Chile. “They start off very blue and ...