The SKA-Low radio telescope in Western Australia is slowly coming online. It will probe the shape of the universe and study ...

The Simons Observatory (SO) has completed the installation of its Large Aperture Telescope (LAT) near the summit of Cerro ...

The Dobsonian telescope design was developed by John Dobson in the 1960s, and it quickly took the amateur astronomy world by storm because it made it affordable for people to own a large-aperture ...

New research from University of Utah engineering professor Rajesh Menon and colleagues at the Price College of Engineering offers a promising solution applicable to telescopes and astrophotography: a ...

A recent study utilizing the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) has confirmed the "radio-quiet" ...

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Jiang Peng, NPC deputy and the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) project chief engineer After earning his PhD in 2009, Jiang Peng, now 47, joined the team behind the ...