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 8 months 1 week ago • 300 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) 11 months 1 week ago • 407 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 2 years 1 month 3 weeks ago • 1,218 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) 2 years 4 months 1 week ago • 1,183 views • 7:52

Also, James Bond in Goldeneye

posted by Mordhaus 2 years 7 months 1 week ago • 514 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 3 years 2 months 1 week ago • 588 views • 5:50

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

posted by Mordhaus 3 years 2 months 2 weeks ago • 159 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 8 years 8 months 3 weeks ago • 1,376 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 9 years 11 months 1 week ago • 1,051 views