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KSA unveils picture of black hole in center of the Galaxy

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Year 26, Day 244 The KSA has unveiled this wonderful image of Sagitarrius K*, the black hole in the center of the Galaxy. They achieved this by using a combination telescope, otherwise known as the EHT (Enormously Huge Telescope), a set of telescopes and observatories across Kerbin using their combined and focused power to take an image of the black hole at the heart of the Galaxy. Take a look:

Kaia Telescope launches to map the galaxy

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Year 23, Day 312 The Kaia Telescope has launched to uncover the secrets of the Galaxy's stars and map the whole of the Galaxy. Kaia is a new space telescope launched by KSA to map the majority of stars in the Galaxy and, specifically, the Karion Arm, the spiral arm of the Galaxy that Kerbin is located in. Kaia has already made promising progress; it's already mapped over a million stars, pushing to a hundred million and beyond. This is just in its first month of activity. It's expected to reach a billion in a couple years. Kaia will push for more and discover more, and will hopefully map the entirety of the Karion Arm, giving us a comprehensive map for the future.

Kandra Space Observatory telescope launched, new exoplanet discovered

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Year 15, Day 244 A new space telescope has been launched, called the Kandra Space Observatory; and it captures X-rays. This new telescope (technically a space observatory in orbit) is called the Kandra Space Observatory, designed and funded for by the Kandra Foundation and KPL. The project costed approximately ƒ17,000 (Funds) to develop and launch (roughly 102 million USD). What's different about this telescope, however, is VERY cool indeed! Instead of just capturing visible light, kind of how like the Kerman Space Telescope works, it also is able to capture X-rays, which can allow the telescope to pierce deep into near planetary systems. In fact, one new exoplanet has ACTUALLY been found around the close star Tuun, the brightest star in the night sky. That planet's name is Puf, a potentially habitable "eyeball world", only the third planet found around Tuun so far. We already discovered the binary planetary system of Rask and Rusk a while back, and Debdeb has a lot...

First Kerman Space Telescope pictures return

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  Year 15, Day 13 The first batch of pictures from the Kerman Space Telescope have returned, and let's just say, they are ethereal! The images returned just about 3 weeks after KST was launched and put in orbit on Year 14, Day 420. These images are edited, but they have to be, since even the most stacked of space images need a little edit to show themselves. And that does NOT mean these are fake images; they are very real indeed. Now, without further ado, here are the images. We'll put captions on each image so you know what the image is photographing. Karina Nebula Atlas Nebula Andromeda Galaxy (K31) Omega Nebula Large Magellanic Kloud Small Magellanic Kloud Triangulum Galaxy (K33)