Giant ground-based reflector telescopes do much of astronomy's heavy lifting, although the U.S.'s largest in Hawaii is not ...

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

Just to make it that little bit more challenging, there's also three different main types of telescopes to look out for. You have the choice of refractor, reflector and catadioptric telescopes ...

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.

Two NASA astronauts are currently hard at work in space, patching up an instrument called NICER (Neutron star Interior ...