The Parkes Radio Telescope, part of CSIRO, is one of the most famous telescopes in the world: and it's got a unique way of getting equipment up and down from the central section. More about the Telescope: ... continue reading

posted by BSR 2 years 1 month 2 weeks ago • 43 views • 9:15

The first full-color images from the James Webb Space Telescope are finally here! Let's take a look, talk about what we're seeing, and compare them to the most detailed version of these images we had before.

posted by BSR 2 years 7 months 4 weeks ago • 212 views • 7:48

A quick basic-level tour through the first official image released by JWST, of the galaxy cluster SMACS 0723

posted by eric3579 2 years 8 months ago • 314 views • 7:18

Scientists have long been marveled by the secrets of the Universe. However, the more they discover, the much more they realize they haven't even started scratching the surface! Much of the limitation... continue reading

posted by BSR 2 years 11 months 3 weeks ago • 49 views • 10:32

The Insane Engineering of James Webb Telescope

posted by BSR 3 years 2 months 3 weeks ago • 90 views • 31:23

Destin from Smarter Every Day looks into how the James Webb Space Telescope works.

posted by w1ndex 3 years 5 months 1 week ago • 190 views • 29:46

From YT: In This Video I Show You A Comparison Between The Greatest Space Telescope Ever, My Universities $32,000 Telescope and my very own Telescope!

posted by Nephelimdream 3 years 11 months 2 weeks ago • 476 views • 14:32

The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration observed the supermassive black holes at the center of M87 and our Milky Way galaxy (SgrA*) finding the dark central shadow in accordance with General Relativity,... continue reading

posted by eric3579 5 years 11 months 1 week ago • 332 views • 5:24

YouTube description: What would it be like if our eyes could see more colors? We may never be able to answer that, but we can build devices that can do the work for us. Over the last three weeks we've... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 2 months ago • 450 views • 9:29

YouTube: The merging of two neutron stars was detected by gravitational waves and then by telescopes in all parts of the electromagnetic spectrum. This is a historic detection as it demonstrates: - the... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 4 months 3 weeks ago • 1,229 views • 5:26

This is very much not how I remember it being reported around the time of the repair mission. I'm sure that at the time it was incorrectly reported as being due to the effect of grinding the mirror under... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 7 months 1 week ago • 1,191 views • 7:52

Also, James Bond in Goldeneye

posted by Mordhaus 7 years 10 months 1 week ago • 531 views • 4:36

Tucked away in a valley in the Allegheny Mountains in West Virginia, is this: the Green Bank Radio Telescope, the largest steerable radio telescope in the world. And there are some rather special rules... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 8 years 5 months 1 week ago • 589 views • 5:50

All these worlds are yours, except Europa. Attempt no landing there.

posted by Mordhaus 8 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 161 views • 2:06

The guy who does the Sixty Symbols videos goes behind the scenes of the KMOS sensor array that will be added to the VLT (Very Large Telescope) array in Chile. The KMOS is being made in Scotland. Lots of... continue reading

posted by RFlagg 1 decade 3 years 11 months 3 weeks ago • 1,383 views • 6:57

The Earth's radius is often quoted when describing the size of exoplanets, such as those recently discovered by the Kepler telescope. Why? and other interesting bits about the discovery of planets outside... continue reading

posted by reiwan 1 decade 5 years 2 months ago • 1,052 views