The Canadian CASTOR ultraviolet telescope team wants to launch in 2029, but it needs funding from Canada's Parliament. ... A diagram of the electromagnetic spectrum. (Image credit: Getty Images) ...

The Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) ultraviolet space telescope was launched in 2003 to investigate how galaxies evolve. The ultraviolet (UV) waveband was thought to be a rather subdued region ...

But, this telescope is in space, so the atmosphere doesn’t blur out the images. More importantly, the air above our heads absorbs ultraviolet light, preventing ground-based telescopes from even ...

Abstract: We observed the 2019 January total lunar eclipse with the Hubble Space Telescope's STIS spectrograph to obtain the first near-UV (1700–3200 Å) observation of Earth as a transiting ...

It will be on board in 2012, when a Soyus-2 rocket carries an X-ray telescope into space to decode the nature of the universe's dark energy: an X-ray detector developed by the Max Planck Institute ...

The James Webb Space Telescope is attuned only to infrared light, but that doesn’t mean it can’t see the broader sky with a little help from its friends.. Chandra X-ray Observatory is Nasa’s ...

And now, NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, also known as NuSTAR, has compiled a colorful new view of the sun using X-ray telescopes and observations of UV light.

Astronomers from the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA) have spotted rare hot Ultraviolet (UV)-bright stars in Milky Way’s massive intriguing globular cluster called NGC 2808 that is said to ...

It shows data obtained by Swift’s Ultraviolet/Optical Telescope (blue and green) and X-Ray Telescope (red). The image of the star field (white) was acquired by the Digital Sky Survey.

This image of Comet Lulin was taken by Swift on January 28, 2009. It shows data obtained by Swift’s Ultraviolet/Optical Telescope (blue and green) and X-Ray Telescope (red).

My group — which consists mainly of me — has been involved in a variety of mostly observational projects over the past five years, utilizing primarily Hubble Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray ...