Stunning newly released images show that the Extremely Large Telescope is now half complete. Images taken in June show the structure of the Earth-based Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) currently under construction atop the Cerro Armazones mountain in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile with extraordinary detail. When completed, the ELT will boast a 128-foot (39-meter) … Leer más
The European Southern Observatory continues to build the world’s largest telescope, the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT). Construction of the telescope began in 2014 with the flattening of a peak called Cerro Armazones in Chile’s Atacama desert. ESO has just announced that construction progress has passed the 50% mark. The remaining work will take another … Leer más
Fasten your seatbelt for a flight through space, across thousands of galaxies, at 200 million light years per second. We’re pretty sure that’s faster than the Millenium Falcon can make Kessel Run. JWST recently took a deep look at a patch of space known as the Extended Groth Strip, which certainly looks like somewhere you’d … Leer más
Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have traced an extremely bright gamma-ray burst (GRB) to its origin, a violent collision between two neutron stars. The ring on your finger likely contains atoms produced in neutron star collisions like this, also known as «kilonova». That’s because, as well as blowing up the GRB over … Leer más