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Staff at the European Southern Observatory have a system to clean the La Silla Observatory's delicate mirrors without breaking them. Big telescopes feature some of the finest and most precise mirrors ...

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The Hubble Space Telescope has glimpsed the most distant single star it's ever observed, glimmering 28 billion light-years away. And the star could be between 50 to 500 times more massive than our sun ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope confirmed Earendel, the most distant star, shining just one billion years after the Big ...

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"We were amazed by the fact that these observatories can detect about 100 black holes just 250 million years after the Big Bang. Such detections would greatly help to constrain black hole formation ...

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HAWAII, Hawaii (KHON2) — The University of Hawaiʻi’s Institute for Astronomy is beginning to decommission the UKIRT telescope on Maunakea, the university announced on Friday, June 27. According to UH, ...