New Black Hole Space Telescope Unfolds 33-Foot Mast in Orbit
NASA's newest space telescope — a black hole-hunting observatory — unfolded a giant mast in orbit Thursday (June 21), one of the final steps before it can begin peering deep into the universe. full story 
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Herschel space telescope shuts down
All good things come to an end and the European Space Agency’s Herschel Space Observatory mission is no exception. After more than three years in orbit, the most powerful infrared telescope ever flown in space has ceased scientific operations after the last of the liquid helium used to supercool its instruments ran out...
gizmag.com (25 days ago)
End for Herschel space telescope
The European Space Agency says its flagship Herschel telescope, the most powerful infrared observatory ever put in orbit, has run out of coolant and stopped working.
bbci.co.uk (26 days ago)
Distant, Gargantuan Black Hole Spins At Almost The Speed Of Light
New telescopic findings help shed light on a black hole physics mystery. Nothing can escape a black hole, even light, because to wrench away from its titanic gravitational pull, you’d have to move faster than light is capable of traveling. And nothing can do that, as far as anyone knows. As matter falls into a black hole’s gaping maw, it superheats to millions of degrees,...
popsci.com (2 months and 27 days ago)
Hubble at 23: Horsehead Nebula in a New Light
The Hubble Space Telescope has been in orbit for 23 years and, to celebrate this milestone, the space telescope has revisited the famous Horsehead Nebula in the constellation of Orion.
discovery.com (1 month and 5 days ago)
Big Pic: The Milky Way's Black Hole Devours Hot Gas
Chomp chomp, guuulp. Later this year, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way will dine on a small passing cloud of gas, which wandered too close and is now spiraling toward the black hole’s maw. But that may only be a first course, according to new observations. The Herschel space telescope spotted a vast amount of surprisingly hot molecular gas near the...
popsci.com (18 days ago)
Fermi space telescope's 'spirograph' of the Vela pulsar - video
Spirograph-like pattern created by tracking a pulsar's position relative to the centre of an orbiting telescope's field of view, over a period of 51 months spent in low Earth orbit
guardian.co.uk (2 months and 28 days ago)
New space telescope will continue search for Earth-like worlds
The Kepler space telescope has already found thousands of exoplanets orbiting other stars, and now the next space telescope to join the search has been announced.The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), a project of MIT, was selected by...
examiner.com (1 month and 15 days ago)
Youngest Black Hole Was Formed By Doomed Rotating Star
Nasa may have discovered the youngest black hole in the Milky Way. The agency's Chandra X-ray Observatory caught the remnant galaxy W49B with what appears to be a black hole at its centre. The "highly distorted" cloud of gas and material pictured by the telescope is all that's left of a supernova which occurred about 1,000 years ago (as seen from Earth). The remnant is...
huffingtonpost.com (3 months and 10 days ago)
Star Plays Dizzying Dance of Doom with Black Hole
A black hole and an ill-fated red dwarf star make for the fastest binary orbit ever observed, with the star traveling at a staggering two million kilometers per hour. Continue reading →
discovery.com (1 month and 2 days ago)
Russian space junk almost destroys NASA telescope
A high-tech NASA telescope in orbit escaped a potentially disastrous collision with a Soviet-era Russian spy satellite this month in a close call that highlights the growing threat of orbital debris around Earth. NASA's $690 million Fermi
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