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Two weeks after its launch, the James Webb Space Telescope has finally unfolded its primary mirror as it begins the final step of its deployment. The telescope is the most powerful device of its kind ever launched into space. The $10-billion telescope unfolded its honeycomb-shaped primary mirror on Saturday, just …

An Ariane 5 heavy rocket with NASA’s 7-ton observatory in the cargo bay blasted off from the European Space Agency’s launch base in French Guiana at 7:30am EST (12:30 GMT). Everything went to plan and less than a half an hour later the French-made booster released the state-of-the-art instrument – …

The optical telescope, which has orbited the Earth since 1990, encountered problems on Sunday at around 4pm ET, the US space agency revealed in a statement on Wednesday. “After analyzing the data, the Hubble operations team is investigating whether a degrading memory module led to the computer halt,” NASA said. …

tAG Carinae, a type of star called a luminous blue variable (LBV), is located some 20,000 light years away. It is just a few million years old, and yet is soon to meet its doom, cosmically speaking.  Estimated to be up to 70 times more massive than our Sun, it …

Due to launch in October 2021 after years of delays, the new cutting-edge telescope could allow humanity to detect life signs on distant planets in as little as 60 hours, according to early calculations.  “What really surprised me about the results is that we may realistically find signs of life …

By leveraging the wealth of information collected by the European Space Agency’s Gaia satellite and the ground-based Sloan Digital Sky Survey, the researchers narrowed down their hunt for these rare, though extremely bright dual quasars, hiding in plain sight among the stars across the universe. A quasar is the extremely …

Launched on Saturday, Baikal-GVD will attempt to detect the subatomic matter arriving from outer space, with the aim of discovering where it originates from. The high-energy cosmic particles are incredibly difficult to find, and placing the device in a large body of pristine water, where there are no impurities, increases …

NASA regularly takes digital data from distant telescopes and turns them into breathtaking images. These images are composites of various wavelengths of light and radiation that the human eye can’t see.  In an effort to outdo themselves, NASA boffins have taken things to the next level and ‘sonified’ the stars, …

Pictures were taken within two years from 6 November 2014 to 12 October 2016. Astronomers using the Hubble telescope recorded the explosion of a supernova SN 2014J. This is the website of NASA. The star is in the galaxy M82. According to astronomers, the supernova star, is marked in the …

Now watching TV and listening to radio will be difficult. Hurricane “Maria” had destroyed the famous radio telescope, “Arecibo”, Puerto Rico. The element broke in half, the 29-metre-long radar antenna of the radio telescope, but its debris struck the primary mirror of the telescope and damaged auxiliary. The telescope was …