Jahaan Ramchandani·Oct 25Refractor or reflector?In my last blog, I’d decided to build my own telescope, but first I had to decide what type of telescope I wanted to build. The two main…
Mriga·Oct 12Jodrell Bank’s turning pointThe Cold War between the U.S. and the Soviet Union had an unexpected beneficiary in the U.K. This is because the Space Race between the two…
The Cosmic Brief·Oct 5The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope ([The] Roman)“The Webb can have a new neighbor as a treat” — N.G.Roman (kidding)
Jahaan Ramchandani·Oct 4How Hard Can It Be to Build a Telescope?Hi, my name’s Jahaan Ramchandani, and I am currently in year 11 at Dubai College. Currently, I would like to major in physics with a focus…
Reka A Sz·Oct 3What engineers know that we do not?Engineers often know things that are not obvious from textbooks — not secret facts, but practical knowledge about how real systems behave…
Xyde Cauzie·Sep 28Interferometry Astronomy: Seeing the Universe with Many Telescopes at OnceAstronomy has always been constrained by a deceptively simple problem: distance.A response icon6A response icon6
The Space Guy·Sep 18The Telescope That Could Find 100,000 New PlanetsNASA has just switched on the Nancy Grace Roman space telescope on September 15, 2026. Sixteen days earlier, the telescope wasn’t even off…
Fahad | Writer & Researcher·Sep 16Astronomers Just Found a Baby Planet Less Than a Million Years OldMeet Elias 2–24 b: the youngest confirmed world we’ve ever discovered, and it’s already breaking our planet formation modelsA response icon3A response icon3
The Freelance Thinker (Joel Furches)·Sep 11The Impossible StarIf you’re a fan of astronomy and you have been around for a few years, you have probably heard of Tabby’s Star (although possibly not by…