A violent clash of galaxies has been caught in unprecedented detail by one of the most powerful telescopes based in La Palma, Spain. The collision was triggered by a rogue galaxy, hurtling through ...

The Cherenkov Telescope Array just got a major boost for distributing its data, a development that will expedite scientific discovery using the observatory.

Related: James Webb Space Telescope discovers mysterious 'red ... mounted to the William Herschel Telescope on the island of La Palma. By breaking light from the system down into its constituent ...

The Sky at Night is travelling to the island of La Palma in the Canaries to take over some of the best telescopes in the world – and we need your help to decide what to point them at!

Join an exciting expedition to Europe's most important astronomy site, La Palma. Visit an array of telescopes, take part in expert-led stargazing at multiple sites across the islands of Tenerife ...

This is the interstellar object 'Oumuamua (circled) as seen by the 4.2m William Herschel Telescope on La Palma. Background stars and galaxies appear as streaks due to the telescope following ...

"The sky background is higher and thus finding small and faint objects is significantly tougher – but the Nordic Optical Telescope in La Palma and the Magdalena Ridge Observatory in New Mexico ...

Adaptive correction in real time of the two‐dimensional intensity excursions across the telescope pupil also appears feasible ... were made at the Research Station for Astrophysics on La Palma (Royal ...