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Extremely Large Telescope reaches a major milestone | Space photo of the day for July 13, 2026

The Extremely Large Telescope is looking quite large in this exciting moment.

ELT's spectrograph could 'sniff out' biosignatures on other worlds

Before any major telescope commissioning, there are dozens of papers that attempt to define what we can expect from it. We're starting to see some come through for the Extremely La...

Cosmic spectacle

The moon completely covers the sun during a total solar eclipse as seen from the Galactica Centre, near the Javalambre Astrophysical Observatory in Arcos de las Salinas, near Terue...

Roman Space Telescope promises 300-megapixel views of the cosmos

The $4.3 billion telescope is expected to discover tens of thousands of exoplanets while probing the nature of mysterious dark matter and energy.

The Dark Energy Camera's New Image is Reminiscent of van Gogh

The Dark Energy Camera (DECam) has a massive 570 megapixel camera, and its new image is of the Corona Australis Molecular Cloud. Corona Australis is one of the closest star-forming...

Upgraded Sardinia Radio Telescope To Continue Probing Mysterious Fast Radio Bursts

Largest Italian radio telescope located on an out of the way mountain plateau in southern Sardinia sheds light on the cosmos’ still misunderstood Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs).

The starry night redux: Dark energy camera captures stars, nebulae, clusters, and more in a rich, van Gogh-esque scene

The 570-megapixel Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy Camera (DECam) captures a vibrant scene filled with swirls and stars reminiscent of Van Gogh's The Starry Night. This...

Rubin Observatory opens a deep window on a famous cosmic field

A new Vera C. Rubin Observatory image featuring hundreds of thousands of distant galaxies in and around the COSMOS field marks the observatory's first LSST Camera image and catalog...

The DESI legacy imaging survey releases the largest 2D map of the universe

In 2012, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) was commissioned to measure the effect of dark energy, the mysterious force driving the expansion of the cosmos. Since then...

Roman telescope aims to directly image exoplanets 1,000 times fainter than current limits

The Roman Space Telescope is designed to directly image exoplanets using complex optomechanical systems developed by the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy

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My brother was given his very first telescope when he was 7 years old. It’s a pity he died in 2018, he’d have loved seeing this one come to fruition. eso.org...

Rubin Observatory Peers Deep Into the Famous COSMOS Field

A new image from NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory offers a spectacularly deep view into a famous region of sky known as the COSMOS field.

3.2-Gigapixel LSST Camera Captures Over Half a Million Galaxies

A new image from the NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory's 3200-megapixel LSST camera features hundreds of thousands of distant galaxies across its many pixels, delivering a spectacu...

570-Megapixel Dark Energy Camera Photographs Van Gogh-Esque ‘Starry Night’

The Dark Energy Camera (DECam) pointed its 570-megapixel CCD image sensor, housed inside the Victor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope, at the Corona Australis Molecular Cloud, one of the...

LST-1 and MAGIC telescopes shatter distance record for the very high-energy blazar OP 313

On Aug. 15, the CTAO LST Collaboration and the MAGIC Collaboration released findings from observations of OP 313, the most distant very-high-energy blazar ever recorded. The paper,...

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Photo: NASA's Hubble spies superbubble scene

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a sprawling cosmic vista in the Large Magellanic Cloud, or LMC, the largest of the small galaxies that orbit our Milky Way galax...

World's largest digital camera captures more than 500,000 galaxies in deep view of universe

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has released a stunning image of the COSMOS field. This image contains over half a million galaxies and fifty thousand stars. Astronomers have studied...

Netherlands Joins CTAO ERIC as Observer

Bologna, Italy — The Netherlands has officially joined the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory European Research Infrastructure Consortium (CTAO ERIC) as an Observer, opening a n...

New Images Reveal the Stunning Properties of the Black Hole at the Center of M87

Researchers from the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, together with international collaborators, carried out the first spatially resolved dual-...

The DESI Legacy Imaging Survey Releases the Largest 2-D Map of the Universe

The newest DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys map covers three-quarters of the sky and catalogs nearly four billion objects. This publicly-available database contains stars, galaxies, sup...

Scots astronomers help discover faint exoplanet in distant system

Researcher hails ‘serendipitous’ discovery using cutting edge camera developed and built in Edinburgh

Scientists create largest 2D map of the universe with 5.6 trillion pixels and nearly 4 billion cosmic objects

"It's part of the fabric of astronomy research now."

Antarctic 12-m Terahertz Telescope project to uncover hidden galaxy formation

A new simulation study suggests that the Antarctic 12-m Terahertz Telescope (ATT12), a next-generation facility led by University of Tsukuba, could uncover between 1 and 10 million...