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Bringing vintage telescopes back to life
Restoring a vintage telescope is more than a repair job—it’s a journey into history, craftsmanship, and personal connection. From careful optical cleaning to sourcing rare parts, each step blends ...
Why did the radio telescope go up the mountain? To look out into space, of course. A German-made DSA-2000 radio telescope, weighing in at 5,000 pounds with a dish 5 meters in diameter, journeyed to ...
The Hubble Space Telescope launched in 1990 and marks 36 years in space later this month. Each year, NASA shares a photo taken by Hubble to celebrate the space telescope's anniversary. The photos show ...
A side-by-side-comparison of photos captured of Saturn from the Webb telescope and the Hubble telescope. (NASA/ESA/CSA) The ESA, NASA and CSA have released new images of Saturn captured by the James ...
Like tiny photobombers, cosmic anomalies resembling small, bright red points show up in almost every snapshot taken by the most powerful space telescope ever made. Astronomers now call them little red ...
Imagine looking up at the night sky and seeing a star suddenly burst into a blaze of light brighter than anything nearby. A flash so bright that it briefly outshines an entire galaxy before fading ...
To many of you, Observable Space — formerly PlaneWave — needs no introduction. Starting as a breakaway from Celestron in southern California in 2006, PlaneWave was founded by Rick Hedrick and Joe ...
Roughly 66 million years ago, scientists believe an enormous meteor, dubbed Chicxulub, smashed into the Earth in an extinction-level event that wiped out 75 percent of life, including the vast ...
The James Webb Space Telescope observes the Exposed Cranium Nebula in near-infrared, left, and mid-infrared light. Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / Joseph DePasquale The James Webb Space Telescope has ...
It's always a fun day for the space nerds when a NASA team has new images to share from the James Webb Space Telescope. Today's pair has brains on the brain, with a look at the fittingly named Exposed ...
The planet's upper atmosphere has been mapped for the first time, revealing one of the solar system's most enigmatic members. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new ...
To capture higher-definition and sharper images of cosmological objects, astronomers sometimes combine the data collected by several telescopes. This approach, known as long-baseline interferometry, ...
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