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First Private Space Telescope To Be Launched By 2029 – It Will Be Larger Than Hubble

The Square Kilometer Array will have its first light next year, and the Extremely Large Telescope will be completed and ...

The race to build a super-large ground telescope is likely down to two competitors

I have been writing about the Giant Magellan Telescope for a long time. Nearly two decades ago, for example, I wrote that ...

The first privately funded space-based telescope is in the works

As reported by Science, the telescope was announced at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society this week and could be ...
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China previews how powerful its new Xuntian space telescope will be ahead of 2027 launch (video)

Mock observations test the performance of the Chinese Space Station Telescope as the 2-meter-class observatory moves closer ...
Scientific American

When will we see the universe’s first stars?

Known as dinosaur stars for both their primeval nature and their immense size, Population III stars existed only when the ...

JWST could finally spot the very first stars in the universe

On Christmas Day 2021, alongside other astronomers, I watched the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) launch from French Guiana and begin its month-long journey to its destination, 1.5 million ...
Scientific American

The First-Ever Private Space Telescope Could Launch before Decade’s End

Bigger than Hubble and launching as soon as 2029, the Lazuli Space Observatory would be the first-ever full-scale private ...
Live Science

NASA telescope combines 100 maps of the universe into one: 'every astronomer is going to find something of value here'

NASA's SPHEREx telescope unveiled its first full-sky map of the universe, combining more than 100 infrared observations into ...