#telescopesandobservatories — Public Fediverse posts

The Navy’s Supply Chain Struggle, and Trump’s Unusual Oil Deal in Venezuela

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An Army of Robot Telescopes in Texas Makes the Stars Feel Closer Than Ever - Starfront Observatories allows amateur astronomers to rent a spot for their telescopes an... - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/science/starfront-observatories-remote-astronomy.html #telescopesandobservatories #computersandtheinternet #starfrontobservatories #remotecontrolsystems #spaceandastronomy #starsandgalaxies #rockwoodtexas #photography

Traveling the Cosmos With Carter Emmart, One Last Time - For nearly three decades he has created mesmerizing planetarium shows at the American Mus... - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/science/astronomy-planetarium-amnh-carter-emmart.html #appointmentsandexecutivechanges #americanmuseumofnaturalhistory #contenttype:personalprofile #telescopesandobservatories #spaceandastronomy #haydenplanetarium #starsandgalaxies #milkywaygalaxy #supercomputers #carteremmart #solarsystem #projectors

Big Rockets, a Big Telescope and Big Changes in Space Await in 2025 - Here are some key events to look forward to in space and astronomy in the year ahead. - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/01/science/space-astronomy-nasa.html #nationalaeronauticsandspaceadministration #spaceexplorationtechnologiescorp #kuipersystems(amazon.cominc) #largesynopticsurveytelescope #telescopesandobservatories #twothousandtwentyfive #rubinvera(1928-2016) #intuitivemachinesllc #privatespaceflight #amazon.cominc

Good News and Bad News for Astronomers’ Biggest Dream - The National Science Foundation takes a step (just one) toward an “extremely large telesc... - https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/08/science/astronomy-extremely-large-telescope.html #telescopesandobservatories #nationalsciencefoundation #maunakeavolcano(hawaii) #nationalscienceboard #spaceandastronomy #your-feed-science #freedmanwendyl #turnermichaelr #canaryislands #hawaii

A New Satellite Outshines Some of the Brightest Stars in the Sky - Astronomers warn that BlueWalker3, a test spacecraft with a large array of antennas, coul... - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/02/science/bluewalker3-ast-spacemobile-astronomy.html #telescopesandobservatories #wirelesscommunications #privatespaceflight #spaceandastronomy #starsandgalaxies #nature(journal) #astspacemobile #satellites #research

From Bullets to ‘Bird Residue,’ the Many Trials of Telescopes - Before an observatory can plumb the secrets of the cosmos, it must navigate more humbling... - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/18/science/space/astronomy-observatories-telescopes.html #telescopesandobservatories #lascampanasobservatory #hubblespacetelescope #spaceandastronomy #your-feed-science

Satellites Threaten Astronomy, but a Few Scientists See an Opportunity - Mega-constellations built by SpaceX, Amazon and other companies could carry thousands of ... - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/17/science/astronomy-starlink-spacex-kuiper-amazon.html #starlinksatelliteconstellation(spacex) #spaceexplorationtechnologiescorp #kuipersystems(amazon.cominc) #telescopesandobservatories #privatespaceflight #spaceandastronomy #amazon.cominc #satellites #onewebinc #research #sensors

Hubble Telescope Faces Threat From SpaceX and Other Companies’ Satellites - Scientists found that an increasing number of pictures made by the iconic orbital observa... - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/02/science/hubble-spacex-starlink.html #nationalaeronauticsandspaceadministration #starlinksatelliteconstellation(spacex) #spaceexplorationtechnologiescorp #telescopesandobservatories #natureastronomy(journal) #hubblespacetelescope #privatespaceflight #spaceandastronomy #satellites #china

Requiem for a Telescope - Until its collapse last year, the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico spent six decades tu... - https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/28/science/araceibo-telescope-astronomy.html #areciboionosphericobservatory #telescopesandobservatories #nationalsciencefoundation #extraterrestriallife #spaceandastronomy #your-feed-science #education(k-12) #drakefrank #puertorico #physics

Killer Asteroids Are Hiding in Plain Sight. A New Tool Helps Spot Them. - Researchers have built an algorithm that can scan old astronomical images for unnoticed s... - https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/31/science/asteroids-algorithm-planetary-defense.html #nationaloptical-infraredastronomyresearchlaboratory #telescopesandobservatories #computersandtheinternet #spaceandastronomy #b612foundation #solarsystem #photography #asteroids #luedwardt #research #earth

Has the Milky Way’s Black Hole Come to Light? - The Event Horizon Telescope reaches again for a glimpse of the “unseeable.” - https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/12/science/black-hole-photo.html #telescopesandobservatories #eventhorizontelescope #spaceandastronomy #blackholes(space) #your-feed-science #starsandgalaxies #milkywaygalaxy #sagittariusa*

How a Tiny Asteroid Strike May Save Earthlings From City-Killing Space Rocks - An asteroid hunter detected the small object two hours before it crashed into the sea nea... - https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/21/science/nasa-asteroid-strike.html #nationalaeronauticsandspaceadministration #telescopesandobservatories #computersandtheinternet #jetpropulsionlaboratory #meteorsandmeteorites #spaceandastronomy #asteroids #greenland #iceland

Webb Telescope Approaches Launch, With an Eye Toward Cosmic Origins - The biggest space telescope in history aims to answer astronomy’s oldest question: How di... - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/20/science/webb-telescope-astronomy.html #telescopesandobservatories #jameswebbspacetelescope #scienceandtechnology #hubblespacetelescope #spaceandastronomy #your-feed-science #blackholes(space) #starsandgalaxies #hubbleconstant #freedmanwendyl #frenchguiana #planets #physics

A New 10-Year Plan for the Cosmos - On astronomers’ wish list for the next decade: two giant telescopes and a space telescope... - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/04/science/astronomy-decadal-survey-telescope.html #nationalacademiesofsciencesengineeringandmedicine #nationalaeronauticsandspaceadministration #telescopesandobservatories #jameswebbspacetelescope #spaceandastronomy #blackholes(space) #your-feed-science #starsandgalaxies #atacamadesert #canaryislands #unitedstates #europe

The Webb Telescope’s Latest Stumbling Block: Its Name - The long-awaited successor to the Hubble Space Telescope is scheduled to launch in Decemb... - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/20/science/webb-telescope-astronomy-homophobia.html #nationalaeronauticsandspaceadministration #telescopesandobservatories #jameswebbspacetelescope #prescod-weinsteinchanda #hubblespacetelescope #namesorganizational #spaceandastronomy #nelsonbill(1942-) #walkowiczlucianne #your-feed-science #starsandgalaxies

Hunting Ghost Particles Beneath the World’s Deepest Lake - A neutrino-spotting telescope beneath Russia’s frozen Lake Baikal in Russia is close to delivering... - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/30/science/neutrinos-lake-baikal.html #telescopesandobservatories #domogatskigrigoriv. #lakebaikal(russia) #spaceandastronomy #starsandgalaxies #neutrinos #research #physics #siberia #russia #ice

Amazon Satellites Add to Astronomers’ Worries About the Night Sky - The F.C.C. approved the company’s 3,236-satellite constellation, which aims to provide high-speed ... - https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/10/science/amazon-project-kuiper.html #federalcommunicationscommission #corporatesocialresponsibility #telescopesandobservatories #computersandtheinternet #privatespaceflight #spaceandastronomy #amazon.cominc #satellites #pollution #research

OneWeb’s Launch of 34 Satellites Adds to Astronomers’ Fears for Night Skies - Like SpaceX, the company aims to build a constellation of internet satellites, but its orbiters co... more: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/06/science/oneweb-launch.html?emc=rss&partner=rss #regulationandderegulationofindustry #nationalradioastronomyobservatory #spaceexplorationtechnologiescorp #federalcommunicationscommission #telescopesandobservatories #privatespaceflight #spaceandastronomy #starsandgalaxies

Europe’s Cheops Satellite Will Try to Launch Again - Follow the launch of the world’s newest orbiting telescope, which will search for habitable worlds... more: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/18/science/cheops-satellite-launch.html?emc=rss&partner=rss #rocketscienceandpropulsion #telescopesandobservatories #extraterrestriallife #europeanspaceagency #spaceandastronomy #starsandgalaxies #frenchguiana #arianespace #research #planets #cheops

Europe’s Cheops Satellite Will Scour Space for Habitable Planets - Follow the launch of the world’s newest orbiting telescope. more: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/17/science/cheops-satellite-exoplanet.html?emc=rss&partner=rss #telescopesandobservatories #rocketscienceandpropulsion #extraterrestriallife #europeanspaceagency #spaceandastronomy #starsandgalaxies #satellites #planets #cheops

SpaceX to Launch 60 More Starlink Satellites - As the company presses ahead with its project to launch tens of thousands of satellites for intern... more: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/11/science/spacex-starlink-satellites.html?emc=rss&partner=rss #spaceexplorationtechnologiescorp #largesynopticsurveytelescope #americanastronomicalsociety #telescopesandobservatories #computersandtheinternet #privatespaceflight #spaceandastronomy #satellites #muskelon

In Hawaii, Construction to Begin on Disputed Telescope Project - Work on the Thirty Meter Telescope on Mauna Kea, bitterly opposed by Hawaiian activists, may soon ... more: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/20/science/telescope-mauna-kea-hawaii.html?emc=rss&partner=rss #demonstrationsprotestsandriots #telescopesandobservatories #maunakeavolcano(hawaii) #politicsandgovernment #spaceandastronomy #nativeamericans #igedavid #hawaii