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NASA puts Hubble telescope on 'safe mode' after gyroscope failure

NASA puts Hubble telescope on ‘safe mode’ after gyroscope failure

On Friday, the Hubble Space Observatory, which gave us phenomenal images of the celestial bodies in your milky way and beyond, has been put on a ‘safe mode’ after one of the three gyroscopes mounted on the spacecraft reached its end of life. Hubble Space Observatory was sent to scan through the cosmos on shuttle …

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MeerKAT, world's largest radio telescope will capture 50 times sensitive image than Hubble

MeerKAT, world’s largest radio telescope will capture images more sensitive than Hubble

In a feat to discover the hidden truth and the unanswered questions that researchers have been studying for decades now, the world’s largest radio telescope with 64-dishes was inaugurated on Friday at a remote South African town named Carnarvon. The telescope is named as MeerKAT and it has 64-dishes arranged in a complex known as …

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Researchers found rare binary asteroids using radar & optical observatories

Researchers found rare binary asteroids using telescopes

Asteroid 2017 YE5 is the fourth near-Earth binary object that zoomed past Earth last month with an estimated size taller than the height of Burj Khalifa in Dubai. Back in 2017, the object was first discovered as a single object but a recent observation revealed that it’s actually a binary asteroid revolving around each other …

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