The FAST, or Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope, is, as the name implies, the world’s largest uniform radio telescope with a diameter of 500 meters and an area. Photo by Xu Liu / Xinhua...
The artist’s view of the Giant Magellan Telescope. Its main mirror is a mosaic consisting of seven single mirrors measuring 8.4 meters. Image by Mason Media / GMT Precise control of telescope mirrors requires...
HD 33632 Ab – The telescope photographed a brown dwarf orbiting a relatively close star. This is the first discovery of a new technology for finding exoplanets. The brown dwarf HD 33632 Ab emerged...
The Keck I telescope at Mauna Kea has measured a distance record of galaxies. From the galaxy GN-z11, light set in motion when the universe was only hundreds of millions of years old.. (The...
