CFHT Unveils Stunning Image of the Cosmos
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CFHT -- Twenty-five years ago, on September 28, 1979, the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) was inaugurated on top of Mauna-Kea, a 4,200-meter high dormant volcano on the island of Hawaii.     From the photographic emulsion of the first light to today's 340 Mega-Pixel digital camera, CHFT's instruments are cutting edge; its camera is the largest ever built in operation on a telescope...
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One of the world's largest optical telescopes will peer into space for the first time on Friday.
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An international team of astronomers has succeeded in solving the 100 year-old mystery about the origin of the cosmic rays by producing the first ever image of an astronomical object using high energy gamma rays.
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Edge on view of the rings Hubble has snapped a gorgeous shot of the rings of Uranus*.â¦
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Hurricane Ivan&#39;s massiveness can be seen in this view of the storm from the international space station. The photograph was made Saturday when Ivan was over the Caribbean.
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A team of astronomers from the US and the UK have obtained the clearest pictures from space ever taken.
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Summary - (Nov 4, 2004) European astronomers have produced the first image of an object using high energy gamma rays - the most penetrating form of radiation known.
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By casting a wide net, astronomers have captured an image of more than a thousand supermassive black holes.
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AN 80-foot model of a space telescope is to be on display at the Royal Hospital, Kilmainham for the next two months.
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By SETH BORENSTEIN, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.  Nature and NASA will collaborate tonight in a painting that will use the skies over the Eastern seaboard as a cosmic canvas. The materials are a nearly full moon, the stars and a streaking space shuttle.
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The surface of one of the brightest stars in the night sky is imaged by scientists.
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Astronomers expect a spectacular display of the Northern Lights in Irish skies tonight.
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Remarkable new images of Earth's highest clouds have been captured by a Nasa spacecraft.
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X-ray vision has brought astronomers closer than ever to completely characterizing a black hole, a place where strange things happen.
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FIRM evidence that our universe is still forming has been obtained by an orbiting NASA telescope which has revealed what appears to be massive new galaxies.
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One of the hottest, most energetic mergers of two colossal galaxy clusters has been imaged in exquisite detail by an X-ray observatory in space, astronomers announced on Thursday.
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Astronomers capture images of the rings of Uranus as they appear edge-on as viewed from Earth.