Glass Telescope Model
Before they built the great Hale Telescope of Mt. Palomar, they made a glass model. And a winged pin became known too at the same time. 1937
The James Web Telescope has produced some of the must breathtaking images.
Let’s go back in time, this light took millions of years to arrive. It is most assuredly most of these objects are long—gone.
NASA’s Roman Space Telescope was encapsulated into Falcon Heavy’s fairing this past week ahead of launch on Sunday, August 30 from pad 39A in Florida →
Our next space telescope is launching in just under two weeks!
In the first episode of our NASA's Curious Universe podcast series on @NASARoman, we get to know the telescope's namesake and what cosmic mysteries it will help us to unravel.
Using our IXPE telescope, scientists found strong evidence that supports a 90-year-old quantum theory!
While observing a magnetar, the measurements showed a higher-than-expected level of polarization - pointing to an effect known as vacuum birefringence: