Getting your first telescope should feel exciting, not frustrating. If I avoid a few common beginner mistakes, I can turn ...

For most of us who are not astronomers, the image that comes to mind when describing a reflecting telescope is of a huge instrument in its own domed-roof building on a mountain top. But a ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Reflecting telescope made in the ...

THE reflecting telescope possesses one obvious advantage over the refractor, in that the position of the focus is independent of the colour of the light used. But as an offset to this all types of ...

There's no better time than now to embrace the majesty of the night sky to begin a lifelong journey with amateur astronomy that will have you exploring everything from twinkling stars and ...

Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 4 (1837 - 1843), pp. 238-239 (2 pages) ...

Earth is about to see three total solar eclipses in just under two years, with each successive path of totality moving west ...

Meteors from the Ursids appear near the Little Dipper, which is part of the constellation Ursa Minor. Only skywatchers in the ...

The simple mistakes every stargazing newbie makes — avoid these traps and you'll get the best out of your telescope from ...

Euclid launched in 2023 on a six-year mission to map the cosmos at scale, observing billions of galaxies stretching as far ...

Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar created a black hole that would later turn out to be fairly scientifically accurate.

In a cosmic fireworks display, scientists have observed two objects colliding around a bright star 25 light-years from Earth.