The most powerful telescope ever launched into space uncovered a cluster of forming stars within the "toe beans" of the Cat's ...

Sometimes, in order to support an idea, you first have to discredit alternative, competing ideas that could take resources ...

Reflecting (Or Newtonian) Telescopes. Early telescopes were all refracting telescopes of the kind Galileo made. While they revolutionized the science of astronomy, they had some innate downsides.

After decades of planning and construction, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory is about to begin a 10-year survey of the southern ...

Students and faculty at BYU’s Department of Physics and Astronomy understand the value of the stars, and they dedicate their ...

For those new to telescopes, the Celestron 114LCM is a Newtonian reflecting telescope. Invented by the English scientist Sir Isaac Newton, this type of telescope uses a concave primary mirror and ...

THE reflecting telescope possesses one obvious advantage over the refractor, in that the position of the focus is independent of the colour of the light used. But as an offset to this all types of ...

Felton Davis offered thousands of strangers a close-up view of the Moon and planets orbiting New York City. Now he’s passing the telescope on.