A new robotic camera with the ability to capture hundreds of thousands of stars and galaxies in a single shot has taken its first image of the sky — an event astronomers refer to as “first light.” The ...

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A group of scientists from California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and the University of Washington has modified an old telescope to create a powerful tool capable of capturing high-definition ...

A state-of-the-art astronomical camera system in California known as the Zwicky Transient Facility is rolling out an early batch of… Read More A sky survey that draws upon the data-crunching skills of ...

The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF), an automated sky survey project based at Caltech's Palomar Observatory near San Diego, California, has produced its first bounty of new results. Since officially ...

A new eye on the variable sky just opened. The Zwicky Transient Facility, a robotic camera designed to rapidly scan the sky nightly for objects that move, flash or explode, took its first image on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An illustration of a black hole swirling lots of matter around it and releasing a high level of brightness. It would appear that a ...

A new robotic camera that can capture hundreds of thousands of stars and galaxies in a single shot has taken its first image -- an event astronomers refer to as 'first light.' The camera is the ...