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

That’s a telescope’s main job: to allow you to see objects far too faint to be seen with the naked eye. Galileo said it best: ...

Well, any of us who has ever looked through a telescope could say the same, for the two principal types in use today were developed by giants: the refractor by Galileo and the reflector by Newton.

Over the quarter century I’ve been writing this column, I’ve been flabbergasted by the advances in telescopes for backyard ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...