The Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, the world's most powerful solar telescope, captured its first images last week using its new Visible Tunable Filter (VTF) instrument.
The groundbreaking photo shows a cluster of sunspots, each roughly the same size or larger than the contiguous United States.
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Earth's most powerful solar telescope has captured new images of the Sun, zooming in on sunspots and showing them in nightmarish detail. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2023-05-24 22:39
The United States National Science Foundation (NSF) is celebrating the successful inauguration of the world's most powerful solar telescope, the Inouye Solar Telescope, through a pair of extremely detailed photos of the Sun's chromosphere. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2022-09-08 20:19
The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has shared spectacular progress photos of the world's largest telescope which is being constructed on the Cerro Armazones mountain in Chile's Atacama Desert. [Read More]
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope continues to churn out fantastic space images. The latest captured by the 34-year-old telescope shows barred spiral galaxy NGC 1672 in all its luminous glory. [Read More]
Astronomers using the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) VISTA telescope have created and published a massive infrared map of the Milky Way galaxy containing more than 1.
"Smart telescopes" are all the rage, thanks to the ease with which novice stargazers can use them to capture beautiful photos of the cosmos. However, they're often expensive.
A team from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center has proposed a design for a lunar-based multi-camera telescope array that could start small, but expand to be much larger over time. [Read More]
Ricoh Imaging Americas Corporation announced the Pentax PF-85EDA spotting scope, a portable terrestrial telescope designed for birdwatching and nature observations. [Read More]