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All systems go for construction of world's largest optical telescope
Posted in Hardware on 4th Jun, 2015
by Alex Muller
When fully operational, the Giant Magellan Telescope will look further into space and farther back in time than any telescope ever made.
Advanced Ligo gravitational wave hunt is green lit
Posted in Featured, Science on 21st May, 2015
by Alex Muller
One of the great physics experiments of our age looks ready to begin its quest: A pair of widely separated laboratories will be hunting for gravitational waves.
Powerful new radio telescope array monitors the entire sky 24/7 in real time
Posted in Hardware on 13th May, 2015
by Alex Muller
A new telescope array can image the entire sky, helping astronomers to search for objects that pulse, flicker, flare, or explode.
The search for more Earth-like planets ramps up
Posted in Science on 27th Apr, 2015
by Alex Muller
A new collaboration aims to bring separate telescopes together into a family, united by the single goal of seeking habitable worlds.
Dark matter becomes less 'ghostly'
Posted in Science on 15th Apr, 2015
by Alex Muller
Dark matter makes up 27% of the known Universe. For the first time, it may have been caught interacting with other dark matter in a cluster 1.4 billion light-years away.