Unisteller’s Latest Telescopes Make Stargazing as Easy as Flipping Through Your Phone

The winter nights may be long, but they don’t have to be dull, even for folks with small apartments who don’t have room for an extra big telescope. Unistellar’s latest telescope, the Odyssey, is half the size and less than half the weight of the company’s last big release from 2023. However, with a few … Read more

Finally, a Telescope Named ‘Einstein’ Is Heading to Space

The Einstein Probe, an X-ray telescope managed by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, will be ready to launch next month. The probe will look for transient events in X-ray light and try to answer some fundamental questions about black holes and gravitational waves. Gizmodo’s Top Five Gadgets of 2023 Hubble, Chandra, Spitzer, and Webb. Undoubtedly … Read more

How a Balloon Over Antarctica Will Help NASA Study the Mysterious Space Between Stars

A new NASA experiment will take to the skies on a balloon, scanning the space between the stars of our galaxy and listening for cosmic ingredients to understand how the Milky Way evolved over time. First Full-Color Images From Webb Space Telescope GUSTO, or Galactic/Extragalactic ULDB Spectroscopic Terahertz Observatory, is launching no earlier than Thursday … Read more

You’ve Never Seen Jupiter Look So Much Like Cotton Candy

You probably know Jupiter, the rotund fifth planet from the Sun, as orange and tan with a big red splotch. But the Hubble Space Telescope recently imaged the gas giant in ultraviolet light, giving the world a very different look. First Full-Color Images From Webb Space Telescope At UV wavelengths, Jupiter’s clouds appear in bright pinks, … Read more