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VISTA Telescope Maps Central Regions of Milky Way in Infrared Light

As one of its major surveys of the southern sky, the VISTA telescope at ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile is mapping the central regions of the Milky Way in infrared light to search for new and hidden objects. This VVV survey (standing for VISTA Variables in the Via Lactea) is also returning to the same parts of the sky again and again to spot objects that vary in brightness as time passes.

5 Feb 2015

National Science Foundation's Green Bank Telescope Used to Capture Detailed Radar Images of Asteroid

A team of astronomers using the National Science Foundation's Green Bank Telescope (GBT) in West Virginia and NASA's Deep Space Network radar transmitter at Goldstone, California, has made the most detailed radar images yet of asteroid 2004 BL86.

31 Jan 2015

QED Optics to Manufacture Precision Optics for Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope

QED Technologies (QED), pioneer and provider of Magnetorheological Finishing (MRF®) polishing and Subaperture Stitching Interferometry (SSI®) metrology platforms for the precision optics industry, announces that the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) has awarded QED Optics a contract to manufacture precision optics for the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST).

28 Jan 2015

UoM Researchers Win 2015 RAS Team Award for Designing e-MERLIN Radio Telescope

A team who helped developed one of the world’s most powerful radio telescopes has been recognised by the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS).

12 Jan 2015

Canada's MOST and NASA’s Kepler Telescopes Confirm Discovery of New Exoplanet

“It could be a miniature version of the ice giant planet Neptune,” said PHAS Professor and the chief scientist with Canada's first space telescope MOST, Dr. Jaymie Matthews. “An even more exciting possibility is that it’s three-quarters water.”

7 Jan 2015

Hubble Photographs ‘Pillars of Creation’ in Near-Infrared Light and Visible Light

Although NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has taken many breathtaking images of the universe, one snapshot stands out from the rest: the iconic view of the so-called "Pillars of Creation."

7 Jan 2015

Hubble Measures Velocity and Composition of Mystery Bipolar Lobes

At a time when our earliest human ancestors had recently mastered walking upright, the heart of our Milky Way galaxy underwent a titanic eruption, driving gases and other material outward at 2 million miles per hour.

6 Jan 2015

Physics Professor at Clarkson University Contributes to Optical Society's New Educational Poster Series

Clarkson University Assistant Professor of Physics Jan Scrimgeour has helped write the Optical Society's new educational poster series in celebration of the 2015 International Year of Light.

6 Jan 2015

Hubble Provides Sharpest Large Composite Image of Andromeda Galaxy

The largest NASA Hubble Space Telescope image ever assembled, this sweeping bird's-eye view of a portion of the Andromeda galaxy (M31) is the sharpest large composite image ever taken of our galactic next-door neighbor.

6 Jan 2015

NASA's NuSTAR Observes X-rays Streaming off the Sun

For the first time, a mission designed to set its eyes on black holes and other objects far from our solar system has turned its gaze back closer to home, capturing images of our sun. NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, has taken its first picture of the sun, producing the most sensitive solar portrait ever taken in high-energy X-rays.

23 Dec 2014

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