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Astronomical instrumentation
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Is the telescope pointing the right way?
Nature, Published online: 10 December 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03859-4 This week’s excerpts from Nature’s archive feature reviews of a visit…
Eyes in the sky usher in new era of law and order
Nature, Published online: 06 November 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03593-x Satellite imagery is getting sharper and is gradually making its way…
Tracking methane super-emitters from space
No one noticed when an old pipe started spewing methane into the sky in the British countryside. The…
Brown dwarf in neighbouring solar system is actually a spinning duo
RESEARCH BRIEFINGS 30 October 2024 The nearby star Gliese 229 harbours a ‘brown dwarf’ companion: an object less…
Splendid squirrel sneezes at will
Nature, Published online: 22 October 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03187-7 The British–American space satellite Ariel-5 launched in 1974, plus the curious…
World’s largest telescope pauses expansion amid funding crunch
The world’s largest telescope, the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), which is based in Australia and South Africa, is…
Satellites are photobombing astronomy data — could AI offer a solution?
The movement of satellites causes bright stripes in astronomical images.Credit: Caltech Optical Observatories/IPAC Astronomers have developed a machine-learning…
World’s first wooden satellite could herald era of greener space exploration
Takao Doi, an astronaut and engineer at Kyoto University, holds the world’s first wooden satellite.Credit: Kota Kawasaki/Yomiuri Shimbun…
This Earth-like exoplanet is the first confirmed to have an atmosphere
The planet 55 Cancri e (artist’s impression) orbits very close to its star.Credit: Mark Garlick/Science Photo Library Astronomers…
observatory will map Big Bang’s afterglow in new detail
The front of the Simons Observatory’s Large Aperture Telescope Receiver, the largest receiver for observing the cosmic microwave…