Compound, or catadioptric, telescopes combine lenses and mirrors for a compact option, suitable for both planetary and ...

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NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has revealed the “Cosmic Owl,” a rare structure of two colliding ring galaxies.

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The Giant Magellan Telescope, one of the largest telescopes ever built, is entering the final design phase and is expected to be completed by the 2030s.

Could this HikMicro Habrok 4K resolution ‘multi-spectrum’ binocular be ideal if you want to keep eyes on your subject, day or night, while capturing images of it too?

A fortunate dozen spent a night with the 4.3-meter Lowell Discovery Telescope, happy to be gazing at some great deep-sky objects.

In any case, within less than a decade, we are going to undergo a radical revolution in how we see the cosmos when one or more of these next-generation ground-based optical telescopes come online.

Observatories in Chile’s Atacama Desert, including the world’s largest optical telescope, could be blinded by light pollution and other unwanted side effects from the proposed construction of ...

The frame of the dome that will house the world's largest telescope has been completed, marking another key milestone in the observatory's construction. The European Southern Observatory's (ESO ...

Construction of the world's largest telescope moves forward with progress of the dome and housing for the primary mirror.

Nearly 100 heaters on the telescope will help keep all parts of it at a stable temperature. “It is difficult to design and build a system to hold temperatures to such a tight stability, and the ...