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Hubble telescope faces technical issues for a week, NASA insists it's in good health
•NASA said the payload computer stopped working last Sunday and attempts to restart it have failed.
NASA's James Webb telescope unfolds its giant mirror, passes final pre-launch test
•Scientists from 44 countries will use the telescope to look at alien worlds and penetrate supermassive black holes at the centre of galaxies.
Russia's Baikal-GVD underwater telescope to look into the depths of the universe
•The telescope is the result of a collaboration between scientists from the Czech Republic, Germany, Poland, Russia and Slovakia.
After collapse of Arecibo Observatory, China allows international scientists to use its space telescope
•The data being collected by FAST should allow for a better understanding of the origins of the universe — and aid in the search for alien life.
Repair work for Arecibo telescope too dangerous, will be dismantled after 57 years of service
•The telescope is one of the largest in the world and has been a tool for many astronomical discoveries.
Puerto Rico's Arecibo Observatory is falling apart, leaving astronomers worried about their research
•Last week, one of the telescope’s main steel cables that was capable of sustaining 544,000 kilograms snapped under only 283,000 kilograms.
Black hole the size of a grapefruit lurking at the edges of our solar system 'could be Planet X'
Trendingdesk •The Legacy Survey of Space and Time telescope should be able to confirm or rule out if Planet X is a black hole or not.
eROSITA telescope scans the entire sky, produces comprehensive X-ray map that shows millions of objects
Trendingdesk •The objects discovered include Milky Way stars and supermassive black holes at the centres of other galaxies.
Aging Spitzer space telescope to be shut down after 16 years of service, says NASA
•It was designed to last two and a half to five years and is trailing behind Earth while orbiting the Sun.
Scientists find date when a dwarf galaxy and Milky way collided from a single star
•Astronomers looked at nu Indi in the constellation Indus and found Gaia-Enceladus collided with the Milky Way around 11.5 billion years ago.