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Travel easily with the best small telescopes for observing when going on location or sharing with friends and family: Spot the moon, stars, galaxies and more Whether you're a beginner stargazer or ...
Two groups in Kolkata related to astronomy have created what they claim to be the largest handmade telescope in the city — a 14.5-inch f/5 Dobsonian that is low-cost, powerful, and easy to handle.
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have found compelling evidence of a supermassive black hole at the heart of the Messier 83 galaxy. Webb's Mid-Infrared Instrument detected highly ...
The Blue Prince Observatory offers some permanent upgrades via the telescope puzzle. The players can unlock the constellations with the simple alignment of the telescope and collect the stars.
How can you fairly compare one telescope to another? It's all in the (angular) resolution. The entire point of introducing telescopes into astronomy is to make distant things more visible.
"As enormous as this dusty pillar is, it's just one small piece of the greater Eagle Nebula." A breathtaking new image of the famous Eagle Nebula captures a towering pillar of gas and dust ...
Motorized selfie cameras, also known as pop-up cameras, were a unique trend in Android smartphones. Such camera solutions were a fascinating experiment in smartphone design, but they're now a ...
TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Better Call Behnken is getting results for a disabled veteran who was left without his motorized wheelchair for nearly a month. When Kenneth Copeland, a quadriplegic with ...
A conception of the James Webb Space Telescope orbiting the sun 1 million miles from Earth. Credit: NASA GSFC / CIL / Adriana Manrique Gutierrez In death, there can be great beauty. Astronomers ...
A distant planet’s atmosphere shows signs of molecules that on Earth are associated only with biological activity, a possible signal of life on what is suspected to be a watery world, according ...
The James Webb Space Telescope was late to launch, but the observatory is making up for lost time. After several years of operation, Webb has captured some truly stunning cosmic vistas ...