One concerned magnification. In striving to make images he saw through his telescope ever larger, Galileo found that his field of view became ever smaller. He reached a point of diminishing ...

Captured by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), this celestial spectacle, known as Herbig Haro 30 or HH 30, highlights a ...

Views of a massive galaxy cluster Abell 2256 have been captured by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, ESA’s XMM-Newton and ...

VISTA’s infrared camera can also see through dust, which blocks the view through merely optical telescopes. This image from ESO’s VISTA telescope captures a celestial landscape of vast ...

Orbital telescopes function as eyes in the sky that allow astronomers to peer farther into the universe and see the cosmos more ... the better to peer farther through the dust of space into ...

“If you’re going to Washington to seek funding for a new telescope and you make a list of what you’ll see through this new window on the universe, you know that the most interesting thing it ...

When you purchase through links on our site ... displaying a magnified sky view. In contrast, reflector telescopes use curved mirrors to reflect light onto the eyepiece. There are pros and ...