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The Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), currently under construction in northern Chile, will give us a better view of the Milky ...

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The Hubble Space Telescope image offers an up-close view of one section of the nebula, which is largely shaped by a young ...

Venus will pass between the Earth and sun on Saturday during what's called an inferior conjunction. But don't plan on seeing ...

Though still only in the prototype stage, this flat lens could one day be used on space telescopes, and perhaps even on ...

It's rare for any observatory to directly image a planet beyond our solar system, called an exoplanet, but the powerful James ...

X-ray astronomy is a somewhat neglected corner of the more general field of astronomy. The biggest names in telescopes, like ...