Building on research developments and balloon experiments in 2011 and 2015, the team has refined the ability of the emulsion telescope to observe high energy cosmic gamma rays through balloon flights.

After two years spent analyzing data from the Balloon-borne Large-Aperture Sub-millimeter Telescope (BLAST) project, an international group of astronomers and astrophysicists from Canada, the U.S ...

This is the fifth and final mission for BLAST, short for the Balloon-borne Large-Aperture Submillimeter Telescope, and mission designers hope it will reveal why so few stars are born in our galaxy ...

NASA's balloon-carried BLAST sub-millimeter telescope is hoisted into launch position on Dec. 25, 2012, at McMurdo Station in Antarctica on a mission to peer into the cosmos. (Image credit: NASA ...

Most telescopes for scientific research fall into two categories: ground-based telescopes, which either consist of one single large dish like the 1,640-foot Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope in ...

The balloon-borne telescope is set to probe why the Milky Way doesn't form as ... short for the Balloon-borne Large-Aperture Submillimeter ... as compared to the current 1.8-meter aperture.

A balloon-carried telescope is airborne, built to study star formation. Riding high altitude winds, the Balloon-borne Large-Aperture Sub-millimeter Telescope (BLAST) departed a ground site in ...

Compound, or catadioptric, telescopes combine lenses and mirrors for a compact option, suitable for both planetary and ...

A meta-telescope. Now, researchers at Pennsylvania State University and the NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center have come up with a much better way of making metalenses. Their process can be scaled up ...

The Atacama Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (AtLAST) is a concept for a 50m class single-dish telescope that will provide high sensitivity, fast mapping of the (sub-)millimeter sky.

The Simons Observatory, a most advanced network of telescopes aimed at mapping the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) with unprecedented precision, has reached a major milestone: the Large Aperture ...