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ISPA successfully installed a 16-inch telescope
A new 16-inch telescope successfully installed at the Institute of Space and Planetary Astrophysics (ISPA), University of Karachi, inaugurated by Chairman SUPARCO Major General Amer Nadeem and KU Vice Chancellor…
Largest radio telescope will search for new worlds
As well as hunting for signals from alien life, the largest and most sensitive radio telescope ever built will search for extra-solar planets, or exoplanets, which have magnetic fields like…
Radio telescope ALMA discover merging galaxies
Researchers using the radio telescope ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array) observed signals of oxygen, carbon, and dust from a galaxy in the early Universe 13 billion years ago. Researchers determined that the…
Shanghai telescope honored for black hole assistance
A radio telescope in Shanghai that has made significant contributions to astronomy for nearly a decade and participated in long-term observations used to confirm data in the first image of…
Brain of world’s largest radio telescope completed
An international group of scientists led by the University of Cambridge has finished designing the 'brain' of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), the world's largest radio telescope. When complete, the…
Chinese telescope collects largest data set on stars
China has released million spectra - keys for understanding the properties of celestial bodies - acquired by the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope to astronomers worldwide. As the…
Kepler space telescope finally confirmed as real world
Ten years after it was launched, the first exoplanet candidate spotted by NASA's Kepler space telescope has finally been confirmed as a real world, scientists say. The exoplanet known as…
NASA captures intense bright blue objects in space
NASA Hubble Space Telescope captured intense bright clumps moving through the cosmos at some 1,000 light years from Earth, entitled the object as clear "smoking gun." Seen as the intense blue,…
China revises regulation to better protect world’s largest telescope
No cell phones, no digital cameras, and no smart wearable devices - the Guizhou provincial government has revised a regulation to keep the noise down and prevent human activities from…
Citizen scientists find new world with NASA telescope
Using data from NASA's Kepler space telescope, citizen scientists have discovered a planet roughly twice the size of Earth located within its star's habitable zone, the range of orbital distances…
China need researchers for mega telescope to interpret signals from across the universe
When China built the world’s largest telescope, officials said it would make the country the global leader in radio astronomy. The problem is, they can’t find enough people to run…
Khwarizmi Science Societys telescope a milestone
THE KHWARIZMI Science Society (KSS) is one of Pakistans most active societies working towards creating a culture of science, especially at the grass roots level. Keeping in view, the…