The James Webb Space Telescope, a $10 billion project by NASA, faced an unexpected challenge post-launch when its images ...

Professional astronomers don’t make discoveries by looking through an eyepiece like you might with a backyard telescope. Instead, they collect digital images in massive cameras attached to large ...

We’ve all looked up at the night sky and wondered what those lights really look like up close. Stars, planets, the craters on the moon – they’re all up there, waiting to be explored but telescopes ...

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For better images, the European Southern Observatory can combine four optical telescopes. Now, thanks to laser technology, a ...

This is the first time the novel imaging technique has been applied to telescopes. For the first time, astronomers have ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — A new exhibit at the Texas Science and Natural History Museum is bringing the McDonald Observatory to the University of Texas campus. The “Big Eye on Dark Skies” exhibit opened this ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) John Peterson, Purdue University (THE CONVERSATION) Professional astronomers don’t ...