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This Subterranean Telescope May Have Just Seen Humanity’s First Cosmic Neutrino
Catching a glimpse of even regular neutrinos — low-energy particles generated in the atmosphere — is difficult enough, but spotting a “cosmic neutrino” left over from the Big Bang has been downright impossible. That is until this cubic kilometer buried under Antartica’s frozen wastes started looking.
World’s Largest Telescope Array Is Now Peering Into The Sky
ALMA has arrived, and she is enormous. The Atacama Large Millimetre/submillimetre Array, or ALMA, was officially opened today in the high desert of the Chilean Andes. Guests, including the president of Chile, Sebastián Piñera, gathered to celebrate the largest ground-based astronomical project in the world.
An Astrophotography Crash Course That Will Have You Seeing Stars
Astrophotography is one of the most complex types of photography, blending artistic talents with deep scientific understanding and technical ability. So, if you’re just starting out, it can be a complicated topic to get a handle on. This video should help.
Monster Machines: World’s Tiniest Telescopes Will Study Starquakes
Despite being among the brightest and easily identified clusters in the night sky, the trio of stars in Orion’s Belt are actually among the least studied in astronomy. That’s partly because the huge far-seeing telescopes typically sent into space are designed to spot only the dimmest, most distant stars. But Orion’s Belt will finally get its day in the sun with today’s launch of a pair of tiny telescopes — the smallest to ever gaze into the heavens.
Monster Machines: Tiny Telescopes Could Save Earth From A Deep Impact
A 15m wide, 10,000-tonne meteor that packs triple the force of the nuke dropped on Hiroshima is nothing to scoff at. But in the grand scheme of things, the meteor that hit Chelyabinsk, Russia, last week is a cosmological runt. Space rocks as much as 30m across are estimated to strike every 100 years or so and those like the 50m diameter Tunguska meteor of 1908 hit maybe once a century.
Here’s Just How Close Fire Came To Claiming Australia’s Greatest Observatory
The clean-up has well and truly begun at Siding Springs Observatory which last month survived one of the fiercest bushfire seasons by the skin of its teeth. Three ancillary buildings were lost in the blaze but the brave tale of how fire service men and women and how they saved the greatest astronomy telescopes in the country is one you need to read. Clean-up crews have taken some photos of the site, and it’s incredible to see how close the facility came to its almost certain doom at the hand of vicious fire.
What The Hell Is This Thing Floating In Space?
The first time I saw this photo at the European Space Agency’s XMM-Newton X-Ray space telescope site I was baffled. It didn’t look like any space structure I’ve seen before. It actually look like some kind of weird inter-dimensional portal. Or the image some may have about it. The answer was simpler and actually quite fascinating.
Monster Machines: The VISTA Telescope Camera Captures 84 Million Stars
To produce stunning images of our galaxy like this, your rinky-dink smartphone camera just isn’t going to cut it. No, to generate 9GP masterpieces, you’ll need to use the world’s largest infrared survey telescope outfitted with the world’s largest infrared camera.
