The Joseph R. Lynch Observatory houses a 16-inch Meade Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope equipped with SBIG CCD camera. Drexel faculty and students actively analyze data from the Sloan Digital Survey, ...

Best overall telescope under $500 This telescope offers a lot for your money; it's powerful, portable, and its motorised mount, paired with its app, gives you 100,000+ celestial objects to zoom in on.

Now, using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers may have cracked this puzzle, finding the first evidence of a supermassive black hole at the heart of M83, also known as NGC 5236 ...

Welcome to the Tuesday Telescope. There is a little too much darkness in this world and not enough light—a little too much pseudoscience and not enough science. We’ll let other publications ...

How can you fairly compare one telescope to another? It's all in the (angular) resolution. The entire point of introducing telescopes into astronomy is to make distant things more visible.

But the latest budget proposal, if approved by Congress, could be a death knell for the already-constructed space telescope. "This is nuts," Simons Foundation president and former co-chair of ...

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As the Hubble Space Telescope approaches 35 years since its launch, marking over three decades of incredible images of the universe and science, NASA and its partner, the European Space Agency, are ...

This book summarizes the science to be carried out by the upcoming Cherenkov Telescope Array, a major ground-based gamma-ray observatory that will be constructed over the next six to eight years. The ...

The $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope is literally parked 1 million miles away. In the nearly three years since it became operational, “Webb,” as it’s called, has made some incredible ...

To see that, look no further than the latest images from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), which recently turned its gaze toward a planetary nebula called NGC 1514. According to NASA ...

The James Webb Space Telescope was late to launch, but the observatory is making up for lost time. After several years of operation, Webb has captured some truly stunning cosmic vistas ...