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World’s Strongest Telescope Construction Faces Legal Woes

Dec 15, 2015 01:05 PM EST

The assembly of the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT), a $1.4 billion observatory that is expected to exceed the Hubble Telescope's power by twelvefold, has been suspended after the Supreme Court of Hawaii voided its construction permit.

China Builds Largest Telescope in the World

Eana Maniebo |

Oct 12, 2015 07:57 AM EDT

China joins the race to build the largest optical instrument known to man. The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) is being built that will allow scientists to capture radio signals from space billions of light years away.

A supernova is shown and explained in a video.

Amazing Images Captured By The Hubble Telescope After A Star’s Death

Darlene Tverdohleb |

Sep 26, 2015 11:38 PM EDT

NASA's Hubble Telescope was able to catch the most amazing photographs taken in the outer space ever, in which the colors were produced from the supernova remnant of a dead star.

Telescopes for Distant Matter and Antimatter Galaxies

Eana Maniebo |

Aug 26, 2015 12:47 PM EDT

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), which is capable of looking back 13.5 billion years to see the light created by stars from the Early Universe, is undeniably one of the most popular space exploration “ideas” in the world today. It has generated so much interest among scientists and ordinary space enthusiasts alike to a point that independent groups are willing to do everything to make a version of it in their own way.

NASA's Hubble Snaps the Enigmatic 'Quasar Ghosts'

Marco Foronda |

Apr 03, 2015 01:58 AM EDT

The glowing structures have looping, helical, and braided shapes. Scientists said they don’t fit a single pattern.

Colliding Galaxies Reveal Secret Properties of Dark Matter

Ana Verayo |

Mar 27, 2015 09:39 AM EDT

This leads to the idea that dark matter doesn't totally interact with visible particles surrounding it, which was the previous theory.

Orderly Milky Way is Bizarre; Violent Andromeda is Normal

Ana Verayo |

Jan 10, 2015 03:02 AM EST

The Milky Way and Andromeda are separated by 2.5 million light years.

This graphic shows how NASA's Hubble Space Telescope probed the light from a distant quasar to analyze the so-called Fermi Bubbles, two lobes of material being blown out of the core of our Milky Way galaxy.

Massive Quasar Storm in Milky Way Explodes at 2 Million Miles an Hour

Ana Verayo |

Jan 09, 2015 05:33 PM EST

Astronomers have discovered a massive storm in the form of bubbles in the central Milky Way that possess gas clouds that travel at 2 million miles per hour.