Stay calm, everybody stay calm. But it’s finally happening: The European Space Agency is committing itself to the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), a gravitational wave observatory that will study some of the universe’s most enigmatic phenomena. Alex Winter on the Most Important Modern Horror Movie On Thursday, LISA was formally adopted, meaning that ESA … Read more
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
The Hubble Space Telescope just ogled an exoplanet passing in front of a star in a triple system, revealing the nearby world’s mass. Webb Telescope Images the Pillars of Creation The world is named LTT 1445Ac, and it was discovered in 2022 by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). The world orbits a red dwarf … Read more
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
The European Space Agency’s Euclid space telescope launched from Earth on July 1 and has since been getting set up to begin its investigation of the dark universe. But the instrument commissioning hasn’t been rainbows and butterflies, as the telescope’s engineers and scientists have worked to untangle several issues that have come up in the … Read more
The European Area Company’s Euclid mission took over 11 years to get off the bottom (and Earth), however now the nascent house observatory has produced its first take a look at photographs of the cosmos. First Full-Shade Photos From Webb Area Telescope Euclid launched on July 1 from Florida and is about to research the … Read more