Giant telescope begins scouring space
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One of the world's largest and most powerful telescopes opened its shutters, turned its 34-foot wide mirror toward the skies and captured its first light at a mountaintop on one of Spain's Canary Islands on Saturday.
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A rocket has been launched carrying a satellite to track and study the most powerful explosions seen in the universe since the Big Bang.
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A large telescope funded and led by the UK nears completion on a mountain-top in Chile's Atacama desert.
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Astronomers believe they've glimpsed light from some of the universe's first stars through the world's largest telescope on the Big Island.
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The largest asteroid ever known to pass near Earth is making a close celestial brush with the planet this week in an event that professional and backyard astronomers are watching closely.
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Tests on the world&#39;s largest infra-red telescope began Friday ahead of its scheduled opening in 2008, the Canaries Astrophysics Institute (IAC) announced.
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When scientists are looking into space, the more they can see, the easier it is to piece together the puzzle of the cosmos. The James Webb Space Telescope's mirror blanks have now been constructed.
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Australia or South Africa will get to host the Square Kilometre Array, a giant next-generation radio telescope.
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The fastest-swiveling space science observatory ever built rocketed into orbit Saturday to scan the universe for violent celestial explosions that astronomers believe represent the birth screams of black holes.
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The Hubble Space Telescope has looked into a bubble of gas and dust being inflated by a young star's particles.
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A project to build the world's biggest telescope has been given the go-ahead to move into its final design stage.
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Scientists turned on a massive telescope built on one of Mexico's tallest mountains on Wednesday, hoping to get a glimpse of the beginning of the universe.
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NASA's next Moon rocket is still on the drawing board, but already scientists are dreaming up big new things to do with it--such as launching giant telescopes into space.
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A NASA satellite catches the action as a massive star smashes to smithereens. It open up a whole new universe to astronomers. By Kristen Philipkoski.
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Astronomers using a giant telescope say  they have found glimpses of the most distant -- and oldest --  galaxies ever seen, a finding that will help provide clues to  the origins of the universe.
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For the first time ever, scientists are taking an incredible journey to the dawn of the universe
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A swirling space observatory has been launched to scan the universe for explosions that some believe are the birth of black holes.