At the summit of Cerro Pachón, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory has started its work.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Key parts added to massive radio telescope By Zhao Xinying and Yang Jun in Pingtang, Guizhou (China Daily) Updated: 2015-08-26 07:45 ...

The reflecting telescope made by William Herschel is made of wood. SSPL/Getty Images Located around 100 miles west of London, fast-growing Bath had a lively intellectual scene at the time.

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 ...

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 ...

Sep 22, 2014: The first photographs taken with telescope made by 3D printing (Nanowerk News) The University of Sheffield has released the very first photos of space ever taken with a telescope that ...