Astronomers have constructed telescopes of every kind - massive observatories designed to pick up faint traces of light ...

Sunspots captured astronomers' interest, and with the expanding availability and quality of telescopes, were closely tracked ...

3 min read The Hubble Space Telescope was designed to free astronomers of a limitation that has plagued them since the days of Galileo—Earth's atmosphere. Shifting air pockets in the atmosphere ...

Five years after the appearance of the great supernova of 1604, Galileo builds his first telescope. He sees the moons of Jupiter, Saturn's rings, the phases of Venus, and the stars in the Milky Way.

On Saturday, August 17, 2024, the Maunakea Astronomy Outreach Committee hosted the Tanabata Block Party on North A`ohoku ...

An affirmation of those teachings, thanks to Galileo’s enhancement of the telescope, has proved unsatisfactory to the dominant biblical divinity of Catholic doctrine, which citizens believe to be ...

Of all the astronomical objects visible in a telescope, none has captured human imagination more than the planet Saturn.

Let’s face it, the technology is hardly new because binoculars or field glasses have been around ever since Galileo first invented the telescope. Soon people were using two telescopes lashed ...

Galileo Galilei made an important discovery about Venus much later. He observed the planet not only waxing and waning through a telescope, but also appearing to change size. This showed him the ...