The 6,000-tonne building will rotate up to a full turn-and-a-half while the telescope inside will spin independently with microscopic precision. It will provide images 16 times sharper than those ...

A motorized mount with altitude and azimuth control is basic equipment for the serious observer, but adding a servo to control the focus of your telescope is one step beyond your average off-the ...

Just about everyone has heard of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope — not too surprising considering that it has been with us for ...

Here's how an innovative flat lens could solve these problems for satellites and space-based telescopes. Understanding Telescopes and the Limitations of Lenses . Lenses, the funda ...

A remarkable telescopic eyepiece implanted inside the eye has been designed to improve the vision of people with macular degeneration. The Implantable Miniature Telescope (IMT) is smaller than a ...

Though still only in the prototype stage, this flat lens could one day be used on space telescopes, and perhaps even on amateur telescopes. Engineers and astronomers at the University of Utah have ...

Without a doubt, since its launch, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has revolutionized our view of the early universe, but its new findings could put astronomers in a spin. In fact ...

One researcher’s analysis of Webb Space Telescope images could indicate that we’re all stuck in a black hole, according to research published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical ...

John Carlsen has more than a decade of experience testing and reviewing home tech products, with a major focus on smart home ... without a bulky telescope and camera adapter setup, but I found ...

A team of astronomers recently tapped into JWST’s capabilities to explore the smallest objects in the Flame Nebula.