That's the ethos behind Vaonis's Hestia. It's not a smart telescope, or even a normal telescope. Think of it as a lens to ...

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— -- As humans, we're limited by what we can see with the naked eye. While we're biologically suited to looking at things up close, our eyes can't zoom in to take a look at far-away objects. But ...

I have been writing about the Giant Magellan Telescope for a long time. Nearly two decades ago, for example, I wrote that ...

With just a small or medium-sized telescope, skygazers can easily observe planets. You’ll be surprised how much of our solar system you can see! And you don’t need a dark sky to view all of our solar ...

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SpectrUM recently gained a $250,000 grant from NASA to place telescopes in the fall of this year in libraries across the state of Montana.

The night sky has long sparked wonder and curiosity. Early civilizations studied the stars and tracked celestial events, predicted eclipses and used their observations to construct calendars, develop ...

Radio telescopes let you study the universe by collecting faint radio waves from distant objects. To see extremely small ...

With the 2012 holiday season coming into its "home stretch," many people may be seriously considering the purchase of a telescope. You've seen telescope ads in newspapers, junk mail catalogues and on ...