In some cases, binoculars are a better bet.

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

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The lanes and clouds of dust in the star-forming Orion Nebula (M42) reveal a dark dimension to this familiar object.

Anne’s visit came during the final day of a two-day visit to South Africa and she also toured the Desmond and Leah Tutu ...

Princess Anne has been on a two-day trip to South Africa and during a visit to a horse riding school, one curious child had a question for her about her own horses - and she had an unexpected response ...

Optical instruments: Microscopes and astronomical telescopes (reflecting and refracting) and their magnifying powers. Wave optics: Wave front and Huygen’s principle, reflection and refraction of ...

Anne’s visit wrapped up on the final day of her two-day trip to South Africa, where she also toured the Desmond and Leah Tutu ...

"The James Webb Space Telescope has been truly revolutionary- it is now hard to imagine what life was like without it!" ...

The instrument is the Prime Focus Spectrograph, and it is one of the flagship instruments in the next era of the Subaru ...

The full image includes some 2.5 billion pixels compiled from observations spanning more than 1,000 orbits around Earth ...