Over the next decade a number of new telescopes will come online that could help to find signs of life on worlds outside the solar system. They include orbital observatories like the James Webb space telescope and Earth-based systems like the massive Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) in Chile. The goal of the next generation of … Read more
Over the course of the next decade a number of new telescopes will come online that could help to find signs of life on worlds outside the solar system. They include orbital observatories like the James Webb space telescope and Earth-based systems like the massive Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) in Chile. The goal of the … Read more
It’s as if the Earth has closed its eyes, some scientists say: the coronavirus pandemic has forced astronomers in northern Chile to shut down the world’s most powerful telescopes, running the risk of missing out on supernovas and other spectacles in space. Scientists have been unable to take advantage of the pristine skies over Chile’s … Read more