Christmas is a great time to look for a telescope for your budding amateur astronomer. But there are some things to keep in ...

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View the planets and night skies from home - Heavens above! Your guide to the best telescopes for stargazing, created for all ...

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

The Webb telescope — a scientific collaboration between NASA, ESA, and the Canadian Space Agency — is designed to peer into ...

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.

Thankfully, there are lots of entry-level telescopes on the market ... His instrument is a Celestron NexStar, a Schmidt-Cassegrain reflector with a 150-mm aperture, has a motorized altitude ...

Constructed using professional-grade optics and coming from a reputable brand, this telescope is simple to operate and set up, and sits within an affordable price range. Celestron is a trusted ...

The Sky-Watcher Explorer 130 EQ2 telescope is one of the best beginner telescopes simply because it’s one of the most unusual. At its core it’s a Newtonian reflector telescope like many others ...

For the first eight years of its life, the 24-inch was the sole telescope at SBO, and was kept busy seven ... the long-and-narrow refractor and its replacement short-and-fat reflector. In order to ...

sending the platform on a graceful swing into the side of the natural depression that cradled the reflector, damaging the telescope beyond all hope of repair. The long run-up to the telescope’s ...

The task took just under an hour each time, which included the time astronauts needed to travel to NICER, set up their tools, survey the telescope for previously undetected damage, complete the ...