Webb’s exquisite details reveal a chance, random alignment of a protostellar outflow and a distant spiral galaxy. When we ...

The Webb Space Telescope has captured a plume of gas and dust streaming from a star in the making, with a spiral galaxy as a ...

What's on and in a star? What happens in an active galactic nucleus? Answering those questions is the goal of a proposed giant interferometer on the moon. It's called the Artemis-enabled Stellar ...

The Extremely Large Telescope will revolutionize our view of the cosmos when it sees first light in Chile in 2028. In fact, ...

An international team of researchers used multi-wavelength observations of active galactic nuclei to study how black holes ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of a star and a spiral galaxy, both in the constellation Virgo. But the photo is ...

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

The accuracy of the pointing error in the subreflector is of great importance to the large steerable radio telescope, so the measurement of the six degree-of-freedom ...

Observing celestial bodies brings a sense of wonder and discovery. However, to fully appreciate the beauty of the cosmos, having the right telescope is essential. Whether you’re just starting or ...

Learn more › While standard telescopes are certainly cool devices, there is no shame in preferring a telescope for beginners if you’re just starting. Telescopes have multiple moving parts ...

Unlike refracting telescopes (whose lenses are very expensive), the Newtonian reflector offers the possibility ... it means the optical system must be collimated to perform at its very best.