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The James Webb Space Telescope's discoveries will make us update our worldview again soon.

BEING able to reach for the stars has been made a lot easier thanks to the telescope - which allows us to see them all up close.The telescope has seen

The age of Big Glass is far from over. While radio astronomy and space telescopes are all the rage in the 21st century, ground-based optical instruments still do cutting-edge science. And once it goes online, the European Southern Observatory’s Extremely Large Telescope, under construction at 10,000 feet atop Cerro Armazones in the Chilean Andes, will give astronomers a 39-meter — that’s nearly 128 feet — mirror to study black holes, take measurements of the universe’s rate of expansion and maybe even observe directly planets outside out solar system as the search for...

Posted by Andy Briggs in Astronomy Essentials | Space | February 16, 2021 When someone says “Milky Way,” do you think of the starry pathway across our sky, or of the great pinwheel-shaped galaxy in space? Both are correct! View at EarthSky Community Photos. | Michael Zuber caught the bright planets Jupiter and Saturn – above the building in this photo – near the starry band of the Milky Way, from Terlingua, Texas, on November 11, 2020. Thank you, Michael. Do you think of the Milky Way as a starry band across a dark night sky? Or do you think of it as a great spiral galaxy...