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Neptune’s weird dark spot just got weirder

Shannon Stirone, The New York Times
Posted at Dec 24 04:07 AM

Neptune boasts some of the strangest weather in the solar system. The sun’s eighth planet holds the record for the fastest winds observed on any world, with speeds cutting through the atmosphere upward of 1,100 mph, or 1 1/2 times the speed of sound.    Read more »

Massive Puerto Rico space telescope collapses

Joey Roulette, Reuters
Posted at Dec 01 11:56 PM

The massive telescope at Puerto Rico's Arecibo Observatory that had been deteriorating since August collapsed on Tuesday, officials said, after 57 years of astronomical discoveries.   Read more »

Celebrating 30 years of Hubble Space Telescope

European Space Agency/Hubble/NASA/ AFP
Updated as of Apr 25 12:59 PM

A handout photo made available by the European Space Agency on April 24, 2020 shows one of the most photogenic examples of the many turbulent stellar nurseries the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has observed during its 30-year lifetime. Read more »

Star quality: telescope captures Sun in greatest detail ever

Ivan Couronne, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 31 11:26 PM

A huge telescope built on the peak of a Hawaiian island has produced pictures of the Sun's surface in unprecedented detail, revealing boiling plasma cells the size of Texas. Read more »

China launches gigantic telescope Sky High in hunt for life beyond Earth

Reuters
Posted at Jan 12 09:20 AM

The 500-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope, or FAST, is the size of 30 football fields and has been hewed out of a mountain in the southwestern province of Guizhou.  Read more »

Russia launches space telescope to map universe, observe black holes

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jul 14 09:07 AM

Russia launched a space telescope Saturday from the cosmodrome in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, in a joint mission with Germany intended to map X-rays across the sky and replace a project lost in January.   Read more »

THE DAY IN PHOTOS: June 10, 2019

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 11 12:23 AM

Here are the day's big stories in photos. Read more »

Looking for Jupiter

George Calvelo, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 10 11:16 PM

As Jupiter comes the closest to Earth than at any other time of the year, astronomy enthusiasts take a picture of the view from a telescope during the “One Starry Night” event at SM Aura in Taguig on Monday. Read more »

First black hole image

European Southern Observatory/ via AFP
Updated as of Apr 11 03:51 AM

The first ever image of a black hole and its fiery halo released by Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) astronomers on Wednesday. Read more »

In astrophysics milestone, first photo of black hole expected

Will Dunham, Reuters
Posted at Apr 06 10:51 PM

A black hole's event horizon, one of the most violent places in the universe, is the point of no return beyond which anything - stars, planets, gas, dust, all forms of electromagnetic radiation including light - gets sucked in irretrievably. Read more »

NASA pushes back giant space telescope launch to 2020

Fanny Andre, Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Dec 29 06:36 PM

WASHINGTON - The launch of NASA's next giant space telescope has been delayed until at least May 2020, the US space agency said Tuesday, in the latest setback for the much-anticipated project. Read more »