After a more than month-long shutdown due to a computer glitch, the iconic but elderly Hubble Space Telescope appears to have been resurrected. We have learned that following a switch from the operating payload control computer to a backup device … Read More
Everything good has to come to an end. According to a NASA announcement, the Hubble Space Telescope has experienced serious computer issues, forcing all astronomical activities to be shut down. The orbital observatory has remained in idle mode since Sunday, … Read More
Galileo Galilei used glass lenses to build the first telescope capable of studying the night sky in 1609, improving on a Dutch invention. However, mirrors took over soon after Isaac Newton built the first reflecting telescope later that century: today, … Read More