Supported by the new Astronova Fellowship program, Christina Vides will advance her research in a technique that sharpens the ...

Yes, it can! This is one facet of adaptive optics, which astronomical observatories can use to compensate for distortions in astronomical images caused by our atmosphere. Let’s set the stage first: ...

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A University of Malta-led project is using artificial intelligence to help astronomers analyse vast numbers of radio ...

When Paul Dalba was about 10 years old, he got a telescope as a gift — “The rest is history,” he said. Dalba, a Boston University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alum who graduated with a ...

Very-long baseline interferometry (VLBI) is a technique in radio astronomy whereby multiple radio telescopes cooperate to bundle their received data and in effect create a much larger singular radio ...

In recent decades, we've learned huge amounts about the universe and its history. The rapidly developing technology of telescopes—both on Earth and in space—has been a key part of this process, and ...

Chile is home to SOME of the world’s best skies — and some of the world’s most advanced instruments to observe them. From the radio telescope array charting complex chemistry in Titan’s atmosphere to ...

Henrietta Swan Leavitt, an American astronomer whose groundbreaking discovery revolutionized how we measure the cosmos. Born in 1868, Leavitt began working at the Harvard College Observatory at a time ...