telescopes

James Webb led NASA within the Fifties and 60s, through the Chilly Warfare-era “Lavender Scare,” when authorities companies typically enforced insurance policies that discriminated towards homosexual and lesbian federal staff. For that…

The world’s greatest digital digital camera is lastly coming into focus. Whereas a really highly effective private digital camera might need megapixel decision, astronomers have constructed a tool that can picture the distant universe…

Over the previous eight years, a modified Boeing 747 jetliner has flown a whole bunch of flights on a novel mission: carrying a 19-ton, 2.5-meter telescope referred to as Sofia, or the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy.…