Feb 14, 2010
The 4 meter diameter Advanced Technology Solar Telescope (ATST) located on Haleakala Mountain on the island of Maui is the largest solar telescope ever built. It will go into service later this year.
Feb 14, 2010
Among the sites being considered tor the European Extremely-Large Telescope (E-ELT) is Armazones, Chile.
Feb 9, 2010
The 30-year-old, 3-meter-diameter (10-foot) Infrared Telescope Facility that ranks 40th among ground-based telescopes was the first such telescope to detect methane in the atmosphere of an exoplanet. Spectral analysis of the atmosphere of an exoplanet had previously been carried out only with space telescopes.
Jan 26, 2010
This is a very nice pictorial tour of the Subaru Telescope facilities in Hawaii. The title is "Becoming an Astronomer," which is somewhat misleading. The tour is not about educating astronomers -- it's about using the Subaru Telescope to make an observation.
Jan 24, 2010
NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), has spotted its first never-before-seen near-Earth asteroid. This is the first of the hundreds that it is expected to find.
Jan 23, 2010
NASA's flying infrared observatory SOFIA continues to carry out tests.
Jan 16, 2010
NASA's Wide Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) began its survey of the infrared sky Thursday.
Jan 16, 2010
The premiere observatory of the next decade, the James Webb Space Telescope, will launch in 2014 in search of "big game"--namely, the first stars and galaxies ever formed in our Universe. But the "little game" could turn out to be just as interesting. There's a dawning awareness among astronomers that the world's largest infrared telescope is going to be a canny hunter of planets circling faraway stars.
Jan 16, 2010
A 3D movie documenting the Space Shuttle mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope. Universe Today has a link to the trailer. Or you can go to the IMAX site and click on the March 19 trailer yourself.
Jan 13, 2010
A proposed new satellite called TESS -- the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite would observe 2.5 million of the nearest and brightest stars discovering 1,600 to 2,700 exoplanets and 100 to 300 small planets comparable to the Earth in size. As with the Kepler Space Observatory, TESS would detect planets using the transit method.
