Telescopes are specialist optical instruments that have been around for over 400 years and are useful for many applications including seafaring, military operations and especially stargazing. But not ...

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Refracting telescopes dominated the nineteenth century, with the size of apertures rising to reach the physical limits for lens manufacture at a diameter of around one metre. A key optical development ...

After 400 years, the original telescope design is getting a major upgrade. Part of a DARPA funded project, Lockheed Martin's Segmented Planar Imaging Detector for Electro-optical Reconnaissance ...

The arid climate of Chile’s Atacama Desert is already one of the best places in the world to stargaze. But when the Giant Magellan Telescope opens there in the Las Campanas Observatory in 2025, it ...

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your account’s ‘Saved for Later’ section. Here at the Strategist, we like to think of ourselves as crazy (in the good way) about the stuff we buy ...

For nearly as long as we've walked the Earth, humans have tried to make sense of the stars. Now, three new sky-gazing tools are poised to tell us even more. Each will play a unique role in deciphering ...

MADISON, Wis. (WMTV) - On this day- October 21, 1897- the Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay officially opened. The observatory housed the world’s largest refracting optical telescope at the time, ...

If you are looking for your next reliable, high-quality telescope that offers excellent views of both solar system and deep-sky targets then look no further — the Sky-Watcher EvoStar 120 APO Doublet ...

The 100AZ is our best telescope for beginners, with a host of user-friendly features, and it's also just hit the best price ...

Shini talks to us about optical instruments and how they make magnification possible. How do lenses work? How do they form images? Well, in order to understand how optics work, we have to understand ...