The most distinct feature is a lightning strike near Panama City. This illuminates the clouds below. Above the strike is a ...

For most of us, mirrors are something we buy instead of build. However, [Unnecessary Automation] wanted to craft mirrors of his own for a custom telescope build. As it turns out, producing ...

Imagine spotting a fawn far off or, better yet, a robin’s nest high up in a tree because you have a close-up view in the palm ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captures stunning imagery of barred spiral galaxy UGC 678. The galaxy is located about 260 million ...

Welcome to the Tuesday Telescope. There is a little too much darkness in this world and not enough light—a little too much pseudoscience and not enough science. We’ll let other publications ...

Just how powerful is the world's most powerful telescope? Let's start with the human eye. The human eye has an angular resolution of about 1 arcminute. That's pretty impressive. Take a circle ...

The next great space telescope will study distant galaxies and faraway planets from an orbital outpost about a million miles from Earth. But first it has to be put together, piece by piece ...

The installation of the main reflector for the antenna system of the 40-meter-aperture radio telescope completes in Shigatse, Xizang autonomous region, Oct 7, 2024. [Photo/CCTV News] The main ...

The telescope began as a relatively simple device, born out of optical experimentation. It combined a series of lenses and mirrors to collect and magnify light, allowing the user to see far away ...

Celestron's FirstScope is targeted at a younger astronomer, but it packs the full functionality of a Newtonian reflector telescope with a 76mm aperture while still being portable enough to take on ...