The race to build a super-large ground telescope is likely down to two competitors

I have been writing about the Giant Magellan Telescope for a long time. Nearly two decades ago, for example, I wrote that ...
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Eric Schmidt Nonprofit To Build, Launch Private Space Telescope

Development of the Lazuli Space Observatory space-based telescope would be led by Schmidt Sciences, which characterizes it as ...
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No, that’s not a cosmic cone of shame—it’s NASA’s newest space telescope

Satellites come in all shapes and sizes, but there aren’t any that look quite like SPHEREx, an infrared observatory NASA launched Tuesday night in search of answers to simmering questions about how ...
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The first privately funded space-based telescope is in the works

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and his wife Wendy could help make history with a new project unveiled on Wednesday, the ...
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Astronomers find evidence of galactic bars far earlier than expected

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope found a barred spiral galaxy that formed when the universe was only two billion years old ...
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Former CEO of Google spearheads 4 next-gen telescopes — 3 on Earth and 1 in space

"We're going to do it in three years, and we're going to do it for a ridiculously low price." ...