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Comet G3 (ATLAS) looks breathtaking above future home of world's largest telescope (photos)
A brilliant comet waved its tail above the site of the world's largest telescope as it lit up the night sky last month.Comet ...
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World's largest telescope threatened by light pollution from renewable energy project
ESO estimates the complex will leak as much light pollution as a city with a population of about 20,000. Parts of the ...
NASA’s New, $4 Billion Space Telescope Will Unravel a Great Cosmic Mystery
“We [will be able to] move quickly and map out very large areas of the sky,” adds Josh Schlieder, the telescope’s wide-field ...
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Astronomers Capture Astonishing High-Definition Image Of Cosmic Web Connecting Two Galaxies
A stronomers using the Very Large Telescope at the European Southern Observatory in Chile have imaged a filament of the ...
Cataclysmic variable V1425 Aql has an arc-shaped nova shell, observations find
Chilean astronomers have observed a cataclysmic variable known as V1425 Aql. As a result, they have found that this system ...
This asteroid may hit Earth in 2032. Don't panic—scientists have a plan.
Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.
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World's largest telescope threatened by light pollution from renewable energy project
Very Large Telescope (VLT). VLT, which cost some $350 million to build in the 1990s ($840 million in today's dollars), is one of the world's most sensitive sky-watching instruments, capable of ...
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World's largest telescope threatened by light pollution from renewable energy project
Four bright lasers, the most powerful ever put on a telescope, fire into the night sky to create an artificial guide star for the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope at the ...