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Giant Magellan Telescope project casts 7th and final mirror (photos)
Space via Yahoo News· 8 months agoThe Giant Magellan Telescope project just cast its seventh and final primary mirror segment, a huge...
The future is bright for astronomy, and very expensive (op-ed)
Space via Yahoo News· 1 week agoA giant domed building with a open ceiling sits atop a sandy hill in a desert landscape, with a road...
Opinion: America's 'big glass' dominance hangs on the fate of two powerful new telescopes
Los Angeles Times Opinion via Yahoo News· 1 month agoMore than 100 years ago, astronomer George Ellery Hale brought our two Pasadena institutions together to build what was then the largest optical telescope in the world. The Mt. Wilson Observatory ...
Rockford company to help giant telescope reach for the stars
Rockford Register Star via Yahoo News· 2 years agoROCKFORD — What is billed as North America’s newest, largest and most advanced five axis mill...
Home of the world's most powerful telescopes joins the fight against light pollution
Space via Yahoo News· 8 months agoThe milky way arched over a dark landscape. New standards in the fight against light pollution are...
This South American Country Is Often Called the 'Astronomy Capital of the World' — Here's Where to...
Travel+Leisure via Yahoo News· 8 months agoFor dedicated stargazers, Chile's Atacama Desert is the place to be. Alfredo Santamaria/500px/Getty...
This Week In Space podcast: Episode 111 —The Big Glass Wars
Space via Yahoo News· 3 weeks agoOn Episode 111 of This Week In Space, Rod and Tariq talk with John Mulchaey, Director of the...
Super-Earths are bigger, more common and more habitable than Earth itself – and astronomers are...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 8 months agoAstronomers think the most likely place to find life in the galaxy is on super-Earths, like...
Secrets of the early universe are hidden in this chill galaxy cluster
Popular Science via Yahoo News· 10 months agoThis composite image contains X-rays from Chandra (blue), which helped identify SPT2215 along with...
William Blair Podcast: Cosmic Capitalism
GuruFocus.com via Yahoo Finance· 6 months agoThe cosmos, the final frontier, the galaxy beyond: Our collective fascination with outer space has always been strong. But with companies and public...