[Hank Green] posted an interesting video about the first liquid mirror telescope from back in the 1850s. At the time, scientists were not impressed. But, these days, people are revisiting the idea.

[Hank Green] posted an interesting video about the first liquid mirror telescope from back in the 1850s. At the time, scientists were not impressed. But, these days, people are revisiting the idea.

"I'm like a child let loose in a toy store." The fun should continue until the telescope runs out of the liquid helium that helps cool it, in about 2008. Early in the next decade, NASA plans to ...

Explore the night sky with the best telescopes to suit every budget and experience level, perfect for observing February's Snow Moon and spectacular planetary parade. February is a great time to ...

119, No. 854 (April 2007), pp. 456-465 (10 pages) ABSTRACT The quality of astronomical images obtained with the 3 m liquid‐mirror telescope (LMT) of the NASA Orbital Debris Observatory (NODO) and with ...

The next great space telescope will study distant galaxies and faraway planets from an orbital outpost about a million miles from Earth. But first it has to be put together, piece by piece ...

One answer to the problem is the liquid mirror telescope, which uses a rotating dish of liquid metal that forms its own parabolic surface—no mirror grinding required. Elegant, no? We've already ...

Gaze deeper into the night sky with the best deep space telescopes, perfect for stunning views of the Beehive Cluster, the Orion Nebula and other cosmic wonders. Are you looking for a telescope to ...

The planet 51 Pegasi b is a long way from Prior Lake, 48 light years (several billion miles) to be exact. It orbits a fifth magnitude star, similar to our Sun, in the constellation Pegasus. It was ...