Artist’s impression of the Euclid spacecraft. ESA/ATG medialab (spacecraft); NASA, ESA, CXC, C. Ma, H. Ebeling and E. Barrett (University of Hawaii/IfA), et al. and STScI (background) Dark matter continues to confound astronomers, as it remains invisible to direct observation. Despite this, it comprises the majority of the mass in galaxies. Dark energy, an equally …
The Giant Magellan Telescope, currently under construction at the Las Campanas Observatory in Chile, is one of a handful of “extremely large” ground-based telescopes that promise to revolutionize astrophysics. Comprised of seven individual mirrors, each 27.6 feet in diameter, the telescope will have a joint collecting area of 80 feet and the best image quality …
Combination image using the MIRI image from this paper, the HST image from Gaspar & Rieke 2020, and … [+] the 1.3mm ALMA image from MacGregor 2017. Adam Block New images published today of bright star Fomalhaut—just 25 light-years away from the solar system—from the James Webb Space Telescope shows that it may be very …