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First private space telescope to be launched by 2029 – it will be larger than Hubble

In the next few years, we will see some incredible observatories comie online. The Vera Rubin Observatory's science campaign ...
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First ever images from the Vera Rubin Telescope

The Vera Rubin Observatory has released the first images captured by its powerful new telescope. Designed to survey the ...

The race to build a super-large ground telescope is likely down to two competitors

I have been writing about the Giant Magellan Telescope for a long time. Nearly two decades ago, for example, I wrote that ...
Scientific American

When will we see the universe’s first stars?

Known as dinosaur stars for both their primeval nature and their immense size, Population III stars existed only when the ...

JWST could finally spot the very first stars in the universe

On Christmas Day 2021, alongside other astronomers, I watched the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) launch from French Guiana and begin its month-long journey to its destination, 1.5 million ...
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The librarian who became Palomar's first female telescope operator, and who discovered her own comets

More times than she can remember, Jean Mueller stood on the catwalk of the 200-inch Hale Telescope at the Palomar Observatory scanning the night sky, trying to time the exact moment to close the dome.