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LJMU Signs Memorandum of Understanding to Design, Construct and Operate New Robotic Telescope

Liverpool John Moores University Vice Chancellor, Proffesor Nigel Weatherill, and the Director of the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (IAC), Proffesor Rafael Rebolo López, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to explore the design, construction and operation of the new 4.0 metre telescope which will be on a bigger scale than the current Liverpool Telescope (LT) which has been studying the cosmos and making discoveries for over a decade.

24 May 2016

Olympus Receives FDA Clearance for New High Definition Telescope Technology

Olympus, a global technology leader in designing and delivering innovative solutions for medical and surgical procedures, among other core businesses, announced today FDA clearance of its new High Definition telescope technology with Narrow Band Imaging (NBI) capabilities, which has been FDA-cleared for the improved visualization of bladder cancer.

6 May 2016

CSIRO, NAOC Team Up to Develop World's Largest Single-Dish Telescope

Technology developed by CSIRO will sit at the heart of one of the world's biggest ever science projects, following an agreement with China's leading astronomical research organisation.

6 May 2016

NASA's Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope Helps Astronomers Connect Blazar Blast to Cosmic Neutrino

Nearly 10 billion years ago, the black hole at the center of a galaxy known as PKS B1424-418 produced a powerful outburst. Light from this blast began arriving at Earth in 2012. Now astronomers using data from NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope and other space- and ground-based observatories have shown that a record-breaking neutrino seen around the same time likely was born in the same event.

30 Apr 2016

New Optical Technology Could Improve 'Seeing' of Telescopes, Help Scientists Observe Earth-Type Planets

Physicists of MIPT (Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology) and the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences developed optical technology for the "correction" of light coming from distant stars, which will significantly improve the "seeing" of telescopes and therefore will enable us to directly observe exoplanets as Earth-twins. Their work has been published in the Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems (JATIS).

31 Mar 2016

NASA Announces Completion of Key Milestones for James Webb Space Telescope

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope just got a little closer to launch with the completion of cryogenic testing on its science cameras and spectrographs and the installation of the final flight mirrors.

24 Mar 2016

ESFRI Route Map 2016 Includes European Solar Telescope Project

Today, March 10th, an official announcement was made about the updating of the ESFRI (Forum for a European Strategy in Research Inrastructures) route map at a meeting in Amsterdam. This route map includes the EST (European Solar Telescope) project, together with five other projects (ACTRIS, DANUBIUS-RI, E-RIHS, EMPHASIS Y KM3NeT 2.0) and two others which are considered to be emblematic (CERN LHC Y ESRF EBS).

14 Mar 2016

NASA Selects Ball Aerospace to Deliver Concept Study for WFIRST Observatory

Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has been selected by NASA to deliver a concept study for the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) Wide Field Instrument (WFI), the agency's next major astrophysics project to follow the 2018 launch of the James Webb Space Telescope.

14 Mar 2016

Secondary Mirror Installed onto NASA's James Webb Space Telescope

The sole secondary mirror that will fly aboard NASA's James Webb Space Telescope was installed onto the telescope at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, on March 3, 2016.

9 Mar 2016

More Components of Webb Telescope to be Integrated onto Spacecraft over Next Two Years

The year 2015 marked big progress on NASA's James Webb Space Telescope and there are still a number of large milestones before the next generation telescope is launched in 2018.

26 Feb 2016