NASA issues a statement about the Alpha Centuri Exoplanet Discovery, are they a little embarrassed? As reported by KnowledgeOrb earlier…
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Kepler Failure Interrupts Science Data Collection
Kepler Hardware Failure causes it to temporarily stop observations The Kepler Satellite, known for many discoveries of planets outside of…
Idea for a X-ray Mirror Inspired by Scotch Tape
Scotch tape is the inspiration behind a completely new kind of x-ray mirror for telescopes. The concept was dreamed up…
Telescope Captures Sharpest Images of Sun’s Corona
WASHINGTON — A telescope launched July 11 aboard a NASA sounding rocket has captured the highest-resolution images ever taken of…
First Flight Instrument Delivered For James Webb Space Telescope
WASHINGTON — The first of four instruments to fly aboard NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (Webb) has been delivered to…
The world’s Largest Telescope Project Is A Go.
Plans for the mega-telescope named European Extremely Large telescope, or E-ELT, Has taken a large step closer to becoming reality Monday, June 11th. The Plans were…
NASA Cancels X-Ray Space Telescope
NASA is canceling work on the space telescope designed to find black holes through x-ray light. The decision has come…
NASA’S Spitzer Finds First Objects Burned Furiously
WASHINGTON — The faint, lumpy glow from the very first objects in the universe may have been detected with the…
