Whenever news of a rare celestial event makes the headlines - be it a passing comet, meteor shower or a parade of planets - it makes one wish for two things: a telescope and a pitch-black garden ...

The best binoculars for long-distance viewing will give you crisp and clear views of nature, the stars, sports and more. Some pairs of binoculars can be upwards of £1,000, but the best bargain ...

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The slightly cheaper TS-L1640, which offer 16x magnification, will be $1,199.95. Using binoculars with more than 10x magnification without a tripod or stable support can result in blurred images ...

Dark skies in rural areas offer unmatched visibility, perfect for spotting faint planets. ‘Jeff Bezos has built a moon’: How Blue Origin created lunar gravity without leaving Earth ‘NASA’s ...

Each of the stabilized binoculars measures 7.3 x 4.8 x 2.9 in (185.5 x 122 x 72 mm) and tips the scales at around 30 oz (850 g). The TS-L1640 model is priced at US$1,199.95 and the TS-L2040 at ...

Another alternative is a skylight filter; these also date back to the film era and were originally used to warm up images with a pink, orange, or magenta color cast, to prevent them from coming out ...

Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn are all bright enough to be visible to the naked eye, while Uranus and Neptune require binoculars or a telescope to spot. In January and February ...

Credit: NAOJ The James Webb Space Telescope has provided groundbreaking insights into a new type of exoplanet, fundamentally different from those in our Solar System, by piercing through thick cloud ...

The Subaru Telescope in Hawai‘i is adding a new instrument to its arsenal, one that will observe the cosmos through a compound eye. The compound eye will allow Subaru to observe about 2,400 ...

Scientists used the James Webb Space Telescope to study the unusual star-forming timeline of dwarf galaxy Leo P. Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / Kristen McQuinn Most small galaxies that stopped making ...

The primary objective of this spacewalk is to replace critical hardware and repair the Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) X-ray telescope. Listen to Story Williams and Hague will ...