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Meet Lazuli: The private space telescope that could outshine Hubble by 2029

A bold new era in astronomy is on the horizon. By 2029, Schmidt Sciences, the philanthropic foundation founded by former ...

Opinion: Eric Schmidt’s space telescope is another boost to private cosmic science

The 21st century is featuring a second space age that is increasingly private.
Live Science

'Goddess of dawn': James Webb telescope spies one of the oldest supernovas in the early universe

An extremely early Type II supernova explosion, named after the Titan goddess of dawn in Greek mythology, occurred just 1 ...

James Webb telescope captures giant ‘cosmic eye’ blowing its final breath 650 light-years away

This is not a close-up of a sparkling soda from a movie theater promotion. The James Webb Space Telescope captured this image ...
Live Science

NASA's powerful new Roman Space Telescope is complete — and will soon begin mission to find 100,000 alien worlds

New photos show off NASA's newly constructed Roman Space Telescope, which will soon help researchers unravel the mysteries of ...
IFLScience

First Private Space Telescope To Be Launched By 2029 – It Will Be Larger Than Hubble

The Square Kilometer Array will have its first light next year, and the Extremely Large Telescope will be completed and ...

The race to build a super-large ground telescope is likely down to two competitors

I have been writing about the Giant Magellan Telescope for a long time. Nearly two decades ago, for example, I wrote that ...

Laser Breakthrough Sharpens Radio Telescope Views of Black Holes

Radio telescopes let you study the universe by collecting faint radio waves from distant objects. To see extremely small ...

Scientists pointed a giant telescope at 3I/ATLAS to scan for alien life — this is what they found

They’ve got their 3Is on the prize. The highly anticipated data 3I/ATLAS’ Earth tour last month is in. A targeted scan of 3I/ATLAS for signs of radio transmitting tech has come up empty — but Harvard ...
IFLScience

Telescope As Big As Earth Sees Shock Waves Around Binary Black Holes An Incredible 4 Billion Light-Years Away

In observations conducted between April 5 and April 10, 2017, the team looked at the relativistic jet produced by OJ 287, a ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope uncovers black hole secret

The James Webb Space Telescope captured infrared light from a black hole and gave scientists unprecedented insights into the ...
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Eric and Wendy Schmidt to fund space telescope, three ground-based observatories

On Wednesday, Schmidt Sciences - an organization funded by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and his wife, Wendy Schmidt - announced an ambitious initiative to build a space telescope larger than Hubble ...