Observatories
Arizona Telescope Turned Into a Robot
Engineers have finished converting a telescope in Arizona into a robot. The Peters Automated Infrared Imaging Telescope (PAIRITEL), based at…
Radio Telescopes Around the World Combine in Real Time
European and US astronomers have linked up their radio telescopes for the first time in real-time, through the Internet. The…
Here Come The Thirty Metre Telescopes
When it comes to astronomy, size is everything. The biggest telescope on the planet is the 11-metre Hobby-Eberly on Mount…
It’s Cold, But the View is Great
Researchers from Australia have demonstrated that an observatory in Antarctica can produce images of the sky several times better than…
Radio Astronomy Will Get a Boost With the Square Kilometer Array
It will probe the dark ages before the era of re-ionization, and perhaps before the birth of the first stars.…
Robotic Telescopes Team Up
British scientists are working on a project that would link up robotic telescopes around the world so they could get…
New Instrument Finds its First Supernova
The Supernova Integral Field Spectrograph (SNIFS), a new instrument designed to examine exploding stars, has observed its first target: supernova…
Gemini Goes Silver
The 8-metre Gemini South telescope has been coated with pure silver to give it more resolution when viewing objects in…
Europeans Agree to Build Instrument for Webb Telescope
The European Space Agency has decided on how it will contribute to the construction of the next generation James Webb…
Arecibo Gets an Upgrade
The giant Arecibo radio observatory in Puerto Rico - already the largest and most sensitive single dish in the world…