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 ...

Buying a telescope, like buying a car or stereo equipment, is subject to your tastes as a consumer. In other words, the choice is up to you — but Astronomy can provide some guidelines to make your ...

Michael J. I. Brown receives research funding from the Australian Research Council and Monash University. While the unaided eye or binoculars can reveal much of the night sky, a telescope reveals so ...

The Cambridge Dictionary defines magnificent as “deserving to be admired.” I had no trouble doing that when I walked into the offices of Stellarvue to get an extension ring for my SVX140T and to visit ...

The winter months are fast approaching the Northern Hemisphere -- meaning longer, darker nights longed for by amateur astronomers. To the beginner, setting out on their first tentative steps to ...

Looking Up is transcribed using a combination of AI speech recognition and human editors. It may contain errors. Please check the corresponding audio before quoting in print. Dean Regas: Edwin Hubble ...