by admin | Apr 6, 2025 | Gaia spacecraft, News, space, Space News, stars, telescope, The Conversation
On Thursday, 27 March, the European Space Agency (ESA) sent its last messages to the Gaia Spacecraft. They told Gaia to shut down its communication systems and central computer and said goodbye to this amazing space telescope. Gaia has been the most successful ESA... by admin | Feb 25, 2025 | Caltech, Nasa, News, space, Space News, telescope, The Conversation
NASA will soon launch a new telescope which it says will create the “most colourful” map of the cosmos ever made. The SPHEREx telescope is relatively small but will provide a humongous amount of knowledge in its short two-year mission. It is an infrared telescope... by admin | Feb 13, 2025 | News, Other Tech Reviews, review, Reviews, SV503, SVBony, telescope
At some point, after picking up a telescope (and sticking with it) you’ll wonder if a more expensive telescope provides better views. We’ll spare you the optical glass rabbit hole that follows and just tell you straight: it does. But extra-low dispersion (ED) glass... by admin | Jan 28, 2025 | astronomy, News, South Africa, space, Space News, telescope, The Conversation
You may not know it, but right now there’s a huge cosmic rave party happening far, far above our heads. The chief partygoers are known as supermassive black holes. These mysterious objects can have masses several million or billion times that of the Sun and are so... by admin | Aug 23, 2024 | astronomy, Beaverlab, Camera News, Finder TW2, IndieGoGo, News, Other Tech News, telescope
One of the more annoying things about astronomy is the amount of learning involved before taking part. It’s not just optical systems but cameras and atmospheric conditions to contend with too. Beaverlab’s Finder TW2, a fully crowdfunded (but not yet properly on-sale)... by admin | Oct 2, 2023 | News, OzGrav, radio, space, Space News, telescope, The Conversation
Every so often, astronomers glimpse an intense flash of radio waves from space – a flash that lasts only instants but puts out as much energy in a millisecond as the Sun does in a few years. The origin of these “fast radio bursts” is one of the greatest mysteries in...