I enjoyed being the focus of my friends’envy when I had the opportunity to field test StarStructure Telescopes’ 12.5-inch f/4.8 Dobsonian-mounted, truss-tube reflecting telescope.

The invention of the reflector telescope stretches back to Isaac Newton in the 17th Century. Typically, the reflecting telescope allows for larger apertures. This means a greater amount of light ...

It’s pretty easy to imagine carving glass to make parts for a piece of technology. We see them everyday–in eyeglasses, in microscopes in high school chemistry classes, and even in most telescopes.

It is nearly four times larger than the largest operational reflecting telescopes in the world. The Europeans are in a contest, of sorts, with other very large telescope construction projects.

Since the European Space Agency launched NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope from French Guiana, on Christmas Day, 2021, the telescope has hovered in space about a million miles from Earth. During ...

Armentrout said the Green Bank team is helping the Norway team carefully disassemble the decommissioned telescope. They’ll ship these parts back to West Virginia to keep on hand to repair their ...

UMass Amherst astronomers were among a team of scientists that processed a new image from the James Webb Space Telescope that reveals never-before-seen details of a region in space dubbed Pandora ...

US president Joe Biden and Nasa's chief Bill Nelson have released the debut photo from Nasa's James Webb Space Telescope. Video: Reuters “We are looking back more than 13 billions years.