The so-called "Extremely Large Telescope" is being built on a mountaintop in the Andes at an elevation of about 3,000 meters. And it really is extremely large. The primary mirror will be 39 meters ...

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… ...

To celebrate the Hubble telescope's 35th anniversary, NASA released some striking new images on Wednesday, including a bold rendition of Mars and a stunning photo of a moth-shaped nebula with a ...

Amateurs who attached CCDs to large Dobsonians found themselves in command of light-gathering capacities comparable to that of the 200-inch Hale telescope at Palomar in the pre-CCD era.

In other words, the Subaru telescope is multi-talented, and balances its deep space duties with those much closer to home. Subaru’s new compound eye will build on the telescope’s legacy and ...

Dishing up space food 03:47. NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has returned incredible new photos of the Sombrero galaxy, offering a new look at the region.

The best travel telescopes let you take stargazing with you to enjoy night skies and night sighs no matter how far you roam from home. Sign Up For Goods 🛍️ Product news, reviews, and ...

The DSOC experiment has a flight laser transceiver and two ground stations: the 200-inch (5-meter) aperture Hale Telescope at Caltech’s Palomar Observatory in San Diego, which acts as the ...

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 ...

The new gallery features dozens of artifacts, displayed below a dramatic starscape ceiling. Smithsonian. Modern astronomy began with the invention of the telescope just over 400 years ago.

The 200-inch Hale Telescope of the Palomar Observatory, which went into operation in 1948, was the biggest and most important telescope on Earth for half a century.

Work on the project began in 2003, with an estimated completion date of sometime in the mid 2030s. Run as a non-profit operation, hundreds of millions of dollars of the Giant Magellan Telescope ...