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James Webb Space Telescope Mirrors Have a Complicated Anatomy

When you think of a mirror, there really isn't that much needed to describe it, but when you look at a mirror that will fly aboard NASA's next-generation James Webb Space Telescope, there's a lot to the anatomy of a mirror.

24 Mar 2014

NASA Creates Special Gallery on Saturn

Arguably the most photogenic planet in the solar system, Saturn is the sixth planet from the sun and the second largest planet after Jupiter. With its luminous striped surface and stunning ring system, the planet is a wonder to view, especially from orbit, as NASA's Cassini spacecraft has demonstrated since arriving at the Saturn system in 2004.

17 Mar 2014

Southampton Scientist to Support Design of Square Kilometre Array Radio Telescope Project

A scientist from the University of Southampton will be helping to design and build the world’s largest telescope.

14 Mar 2014

Yellow Hypergiant Star Spotted Using ESO's Very Large Telescope Interferometer

Using ESO's Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI), Olivier Chesneau (Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, Nice, France) and an international team of collaborators have found that the yellow hypergiant star HR 5171 A is absolutely huge — 1300 times the diameter of the Sun and much bigger than was expected. This makes it the largest yellow star known. It is also in the top ten of the largest stars known — 50% larger than the famous red supergiant Betelgeuse — and about one million times brighter than the Sun.

13 Mar 2014

Kepler Makes Numerous Discoveries Over Five Years

Exactly five years ago, on March 6, 2009, NASA's Kepler Space Telescope rocketed into the night skies above Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida to find planets around other stars, called exoplanets, in search of potentially habitable worlds.

10 Mar 2014

Hubble Space Telescope Images Reveal Never-Before-Seen Breakup of Asteroid

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has recorded the never-before-seen break-up of an asteroid into as many as 10 smaller pieces.

7 Mar 2014

Giant Sunspot Appears Over the Sun's Horizon

A giant sunspot – a magnetically strong and complex region on the sun's surface – has just appeared over the sun's horizon. This is the third trip for this region across the face of the sun, which takes approximately 27 days to make a complete rotation.

3 Mar 2014

Antarctic Telescope Identifies Giant Gas Cloud in an Early Stage of Formation

Using a telescope installed at the driest place on earth - Ridge A in Antarctica – a UNSW-led team of researchers has identified a giant gas cloud which appears to be in an early stage of formation.

21 Feb 2014

Giant Magellan Telescope Project Enters Construction Phase

The international consortium of the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) project has passed two major reviews and is positioned to enter the construction phase. When completed, the 25-meter GMT will have more than six times the collecting area of the largest telescopes today and ten times the resolution of the Hubble Space Telescope.

20 Feb 2014

NASA's Spitzer and Hubble Space Telescopes Spot New Distant Galaxy

NASA's Spitzer and Hubble Space Telescopes have spotted what might be one of the most distant galaxies known, harkening back to a time when our universe was only about 650 million years old (our universe is 13.8 billion years old).

10 Feb 2014

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