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With his mirror of 10,4 metres of diameter, the Great Canary Telescope is now the biggest telescope of the world.

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Saturn’s largest ring that can never seen before finally detected.

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A program being established by NASA will eventually cover and area 10 million times larger than that investigated so far. Using specially designed equipment, it will focus on some 1,000 carefully chosen sun-type stars. The hope is to detect radio signals. The equipment will also scan the entire sky over a wide range of frequencies. Although each point will be observed for only few seconds, the survey will increase the probability that all potential sites for intelligent life have been examined.

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Take a whistle stop tour of some of the most spectacular radio telescopes in the world and find out about what actually goes on there. On almost all of the continents these giants command the landscape as they survey the skies.

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All information I have about the planets in our galaxy.

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It was a beautifully flawless launch, on Monday May 11, 2009, from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, FL. The Atlantis crew set out on their final upgrade mission to the Hubble Space Telescope.

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One last shot at new life; that’s what the Hubble Space Telescope will be given in May of 2009, as the Shuttle Atlantis takes it some brilliant new upgrades and replacement parts.

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There is a whole lot of space above us, here we will take a brief look into somethings about it.

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Each time I try to imagine how vast and immense our universe really is, I cannot help but become speechless. If you feel the same way, then let’s feast on these photos from outer space. We may never achieve full conquest of the universe during this lifetime, but at least we can take a glimpse.

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Some interesting facts about stars and how they come up with different colors.