The journey of astronomical telescopes began in the early 17th century when Galileo Galilei crafted his first refracting ...

Newton X-ray telescope, astronomers have witnessed a supermassive black hole already noted for its mysterious behavior ...

Well, any of us who has ever looked through a telescope could say the same, for the two principal types in use today were developed by giants: the refractor by Galileo and the reflector by Newton.

His theory of optics made him reconsider the design of the telescope, which up until this point was a large, cumbersome instrument. By using mirrors instead of lenses, Newton was able to create a ...

This discovery contradicts current theories and laws of science. It involves a cosmic object that emits radio waves every 22 ...

Save 14% on this 114mm push-to German Equatorial Newtonian telescope. It ships with a fully adjustable steel tripod, finderscope, 20mm and 10mm eyepieces. View Deal Gskyer Telescope 70mm ...

Astronomers using the XMM-Newton telescope observed strange black hole behaviour. Located 270 million light-years away, 1ES ...

Our long "push" into the Orion nebula begins with a timelapse photo of the entire constellation, shot on a digital camera piggybacked on the 18-inch Newtonian telescope at Rocky Hill, then ...

Australian scientists have identified a larger, venomous species of the Sydney funnel-web spider, 'Big Boy.' Meanwhile, Loft ...

Astronomers first detected 2023 DZ2 on February 27, 2023 using the 100-inch Isaac Newton Telescope at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory on La Palma in the Canary Islands Astronomers first ...

The microcontroller allows a telescope, in this case a Newtonian SkyWatcher telescope, to track objects in the sky over long periods of time without any expensive commercially-available mounting ...