Telescopes are great tools for observing the heavens, or even surrounding landscapes if you have the right vantage point. You don’t have to be a professional to build one though; you can make… ...

A team of astrophysicists in India have traced an intermedia black hole (IMBH) located in a faint galaxy about 4.3 million light-years away using the country’s largest optical telescope – the ...

A 14-year-old middle school student from Zhengzhou, Central China's Henan Province, built a Newtonian telescope from discarded plastic pipes, parts of a drum set, and other materials, all for just ...

WASHINGTON — Portuguese space traffic management startup Neuraspace has installed a second optical telescope to help track low Earth orbit (LEO) objects across both hemispheres. Neuraspace said ...

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The Kepler Space Telescope, named for astronomer Johannes Kepler, was NASA's first exoplanet hunting telescope. It launched on March 6, 2009, with the goal of observing more than 100,000 stars in ...

Say you have an 8-inch (200 mm) f/4 imaging Newtonian with an imaging camera with 6-μm pixels, and want to use a 3-inch (80 mm) f/6 guide scope with a guider camera with 3-μm pixels.

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Science News: NEW DELHI: Nasa's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has successfully passed its initial optical test, marking a significant milestone in the assembly .

Researchers have developed a programmable meta-fluid with tunable springiness, optical properties, viscosity and even the ability to transition between a Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluid. The ...

Reflector telescopes—which include Dobsonian and Newtonian—use mirrors to reflect the light into focus. These bounce light back and forth in the optical tube, which allows for a shorter design.