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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There are few places in Wisconsin that can claim as many discoveries as the Yerkes Observatory near Lake Geneva. The Observatory is more than a century old and houses the world’s largest refracting ...

Choosing the best telescope for the money depends to a large extent on what you hope to see. If you want to scan distant nebulas, you can pay $1,000 and up, and it will still be good value. If you’re ...

As smartphone cameras improve, more people want to take photographs of the night sky with their smartphones. However, serious astrophotographers attach powerful, digital single-lens reflex (DSLR) ...

THE Yerkes Observatory, which has recently been completed and inaugurated, contains in its instrumental equipment the largest refractor in the world, the diameter of the object-glass spanning 40 ...

The first dazzling images from the James Webb Space Telescope were shared July 12 and provided a window into the universe’s distant past. But a video uploaded to Facebook the same day questions the ...

It’s likely that humans have looked up in wonder at the night sky since we first walked the earth, but now it’s easier than ever to get a good view. Telescopes for beginners are relatively affordable ...

When night falls, you can stand almost anywhere in the San Gabriel Valley, look to the north at Mt. Wilson in the distance, and you’ll see the glowing lights of TV and radio antennas spiking into the ...