At the summit of Cerro Pachón, one of Earth’s most powerful telescopes is now capturing some of the oldest light in the ...

Professional astronomers don't make discoveries by looking through an eyepiece like you might with a backyard telescope. Instead, they collect digital images in massive cameras attached to large ...

Staff at the European Southern Observatory have a system to clean the La Silla Observatory's delicate mirrors without ...

The Vera Rubin Observatory is expected to discover 20 billion new galaxies over the next decade. This image shows another ...

The Giant Magellan Telescope, one of the largest telescopes ever built, is entering the final design phase and is expected to ...

the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT). With blanks made by the German company SCHOTT, this vast structure was the biggest that the company had ever made. But the mirror didn't just need to be big.

The debut images from a powerful telescope at Chile's Vera Rubin Observatory show distant galaxies and star-forming regions ...

AGC Plasma Technology Solutions is proud to announce its pivotal role in enabling the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) — the most ambitious ground-based ...

Eastern Arizona College’s Discovery Park Campus recently hosted a group of local educators for a special behind-the-scenes ...

Astronomical images not only look beautiful, they also provide a wealth of information. What's behind it and what ...