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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.

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View Deal Gskyer Telescope 70mm: was $130 now $97 at Amazon Save 25% on the Gskyer 70mm Alt-az refractor telescope at Amazon. This refractor comes complete with all the accessories a beginner ...

Garden fete at Greenwich observatorySir Frank Dyson, astronomer royal conducting visitors through the gardens on July 19, 1923 (Picture: Smith Archive/ Alamy) The Great Equatorial Telescope, the ...

Formerly the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, the observatory was renamed in 2020 to honor Vera Rubin, who died at 88 in 2016. Dr. Rubin’s work persuaded astronomers of the existence of dark ...

The telescope will catalogue billions of new objects and produce a new map of the entire night sky every three days with the largest digital camera ever made. High atop Chile’s 2,700-meter Cerro ...