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Tag: Deep Space
Super-thin ‘mirror membranes’ could lead the way to bigger space telescopes
It took years of design and engineering toil to successfully get the largest-ever telescope mirror into space. Now, the James Webb Space Telescope’s trademark, 6.5-meter-in-diameter, …
This supermassive black hole sucks big time
Black holes remain among the most enigmatic objects in the universe, but the past few years have seen astronomers develop techniques to directly image these …
Alien civilizations could send us messages by 2029
Humans have used radio waves to communicate across Earth for more than 100 years. Those waves also leak out into space, a fingerprint of our …
An Einstein-backed method could help us find smaller exoplanets than ever before
Since 1995 scientists have found more than 5,000 exoplanets—other worlds beyond our solar system. But while space researchers have gotten very good at discovering big …
Quantum computers can’t teleport things—yet
Last November, a group of physicists claimed they’d simulated a wormhole for the first time inside Google’s Sycamore quantum computer. The researchers tossed information into …
Meet the first 4 astronauts of the ‘Artemis Generation’
Years after Apollo 17 commander Eugene Cernan returned from NASA’s last crewed mission to the moon, he still felt the massive weight of the milestone. …
How AI can make galactic telescope images ‘sharper’
Even the most advanced ground-based telescopes struggle with nearsighted vision issues. Often this isn’t through any fault of their own, but a dilemma of having …
The 100 greatest innovations of 2022
On a cloudy Christmas morning last year, a rocket carrying the most powerful space telescope ever built blasted off from a launchpad in French Guiana. …
How is Voyager’s vintage technology still flying?
In 1989, Chuck Berry and Carl Sagan partied it up at one of the biggest bashes of the summer—a celebration honoring the two Voyager spacecrafts, …