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This video explores Euclid's “First Light” images, released in November 2023, less than a year after its launch. These stunning debut images from ESA's space telescope offer an unparalleled view of ...
PhoSim simulates the atmosphere, including air turbulence, as well as distortions from the shape of the telescope’s mirrors and the electrical properties of the sensors. The photons are propagated ...
The European Space Agency (ESA) plans to establish self-sustaining human settlements on Mars by 2040, utilizing AI-driven ...
Euclid spots 26 million galaxies and more in latest observations. Credits: ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA, image ...
NASA's newest astrophysics space telescope launched in March on a mission to create an all-sky map of the universe. Now ...
A vast filament of gas stretching across the cosmos may help solve the mystery of the Universe’s missing matter. Astronomers ...
Almost a thousand of the world’s top space scientists will visit Durham University next week (7 to 11 July) as we host the UK ...
Almost a thousand of the world's top space scientists will visit Durham University next week (7 to 11 July) as we host the UK's National Astronomy ...
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), launched in 2021, is currently the most powerful space observatory ever built.
The first ever space telescope, the Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 2 (OAO-2), was launched into the low Earth orbit in ...
Astronomers have revealed the first images from “the most ambitious astronomical survey to date” – a mission that will ...
But first, why is there so much astronomy data in the first place? This is primarily due to the rise of dedicated survey telescopes. A survey telescope maps out a region on the sky rather than just ...