Chinese astronomers have investigated quasar candidates from the DESI Legacy Surveys (DESI-LS) photometry catalog. As a ...

When astronomers found a large world farther out than Pluto, it became one of the final nails in the coffin of our ninth ...

A flash of light called the Platypus has hallmarks of a mid-sized black hole shredding a star and a type of burst thought to be a stellar explosion.

The NIAOT in Nanjing was placed on Washington’s entity list in 2023, not long after shipping the finished spectrograph.

Scientists from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission recently delivered remarkable findings about asteroid ...

Seven years ago, an international collaboration of astronomers installed a state-of-the-art camera on a robotic telescope at the Palomar Observatory near San Diego. Today, this collaboration, named ...

has given the 76-year-old telescope at the California Institute of Technology’s Palomar Observatory an unmatched ability to capture fainter objects and reveal unprecedented details of the universe.

The journey of astronomical telescopes began in the early 17th century when Galileo Galilei crafted his first refracting ...

For example, some of the available options for San Diego County are “Mt. Laguna Obsv North,” “Palomar Observatory North” and “San Marcos Peak N Axis.” The cameras can be viewed live or ...

The weather is temperate and rainy year-round. 4. Palomar Observatory (California, U.S.A.) Most powerful, ground-based telescopes observe at radio wavelengths. Radio waves permeate the Earth’s ...

He will spearhead the observatory's new Science Vision ... of major optical interferometers worldwide, including the Palomar Testbed Interferometer, the Keck Interferometer, and the Very Large ...