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What is the most powerful telescope in the world?
Let's start with the human eye. The human eye has an angular resolution of about 1 arcminute. That's pretty impressive. Take a circle surrounding you on the horizon, divide it into 360 little bits, ...
'Hunting for aliens': How a new space telescope called 'LIFE' could change everything
LIFE remains a mission concept and has not been adopted by any space agency. However, scientists at ETH Zurich have been examining what such a mission could reveal even in the absence of a positive ...
It's time to build a space telescope interferometer—this could be the first step
The dream of finding life on an alien Earth-like world is hampered by a number of technical challenges. Not the least of ...
Long-dormant black hole 'woke up' before our eyes — now, it's doing something that astronomers can't explain
The quasi-periodic eruptions of X-rays from a black hole 300 million light-years away are unlike any researchers have ever ...
Looking at the Universe’s dark ages from the far side of the Moon
Despite decades of searching for this signal, astronomers have yet to find it. The problem is that our Earth is too noisy, ...