Apr 11 - New and Giant Telescopes

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Whoa! New and giant telescopes ahead Telescope technology has come a long way. Here are 4 new amazing machines for observing the universe, both from space and from Earth. Goodbye Kepler, hello TESS: Passing the baton in exoplanet search When NASA first started planning the Kepler mission, no one knew if the universe held any planets outside our solar system. Thousands of exoplanets later, the search enters a new phase. Hubble finds an Einstein ring The arcs you see at the center of this Hubble Space Telescope image are created by the light of distant galaxies, distorted to form what's called an "Einstein ring." Tonight … Find Hercules between 2 bright stars The bright stars Arcturus and Vega can help you find the constellation Hercules and its famous Keystone asterism.

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Tonight … Find Hercules between 2 bright stars This chart shows the sky for around 9 to 10 p.m. local time (10 to 11 p.m. daylight time), when the constellation Hercules, and the 2 stars so essential for finding it, are well up in the northeastern to eastern sky.

Jupiter cloud patterns See intricate cloud patterns in the northern hemisphere of Jupiter in this new view taken by NASA’s Juno spacecraft on April 1. Submit your photo to EarthSky here! Did a friend forward EarthSkyNews to you? Click here to get your own subscription!

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