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Dobsonian telescopes are another kind of reflector telescope. They're a lot easier to maintain and operate than their Newtonian counterparts, but they're still great for spotting a wide range of ...
The best telescopes for deep space tend to be a little pricier than entry-level scopes, but our guide includes several budget-friendly options. Plus, Prime Day is July 8 - 11 so you can expect ...
The sharpest images of the universe are created when radio telescopes around the world work together. For the first time, the world's largest network of radio telescopes, EVN, has observed ...
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists found a dusty disk surrounding the dying white dwarf creating the famous Ring Nebula.
ESA started working on the first telescope of the network nine years ago, in 2016. It's 3.3 feet (1 meter) in diameter and comes with a 45 square degrees field of view, with each square degree ...
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope recently turned its attention to the distant planetary system in our Milky Way galaxy to gather new and unexpected insights for a team of researchers.
Diverse telescopes: The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in the mountains of Chile captures a multitude of distant galaxies at a glance. The Euclid space observatory (top centre) was also built to scan large ...
The Giant Magellan Telescope project is a mainstay for the University of Arizona’s top-ranked astronomy programs and its world-renowned mirror lab, helping the next generation of astronomers ...
New near-infrared observations by the James Webb Space Telescope highlight a tightly packed group of stars at the peculiar galaxy's center as well as dust on its outer fringes.
As the data from each image is quickly shuffled to the observatory’s computer servers, the telescope will pivot to the next patch of sky, taking a picture every 40 seconds or so. It will do that ...