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Could we turn the sun into a gigantic telescope?
But it would be by far the most powerful telescope we'd ever built. This telescope would use the sun itself. To give some ...
No one had seen a close-up of a star outside the Milky Way — until now
WOH G64 is what's known as a red giant, a star nearing the end of its life, running out of hydrogen fuel. Through this ...
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First Images of the Sun’s Flares Released From a New Space Telescope
CCOR-1 is one solution to that. The coronagraph is essentially a solar telescope that observes the corona, the wispy, outer part of the sun’s atmosphere. The corona is typically invisible from ...
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As The Sun Officially Hits Solar Maximum, We Are Studying Our Star Like Never Before
From radio to hard X-rays, the Sun is being kept under close observation. “The Inouye Solar Telescope is the largest solar ...
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Listen To The Sun, Saturn, And The Milky Way With Your Own Radio Telescope
Students from the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research combined a commercial satellite dish, a satellite finder and an Arduino, and produced a workable radio telescope. The ...
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James Webb Space Telescope: Sun shield is fully deployed
It's worth noting that all the previous testing was done on Earth, under gravity conditions ... mirrors in their sights. Like the sun shield, the telescope's two principal reflectors had to ...