Over the past few years or so the most talked about kind of telescope was the one that is meant to operate in space. An ...

The South Florida Science Center recently added a new ten-inch telescope and turned to [Andres Paris] and his brother to replace the hand-cranked dome door system. They turned to an Arduino along ...

Nestled in the rolling green hills of the English countryside is an important site in global astronomical history. But now, ...

Construction of the world's largest telescope moves forward with progress of the structure's dome and housing for the primary mirror. The European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Extremely Large ...

The original instrument to occupy the dome was the 10.5-inch Bausch telescope, which was installed in the new observatory building in 1953. The 25-foot diameter dome was necessary to encompass the ...

Astronomers spent a decade compiling this special image with the Hubble Space Telescope and then stitched together 600 photos to showcase over 200 million stars.

The dome of the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (left) towers over the domes of Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System (Pan STARRS) I and 2 at the summit of Haleakala in 2018.

Also knowing that the sunset objects are very low in the sky and setting fast, we set up a small telescope and binoculars on the roof to insure that we had flexibility for observing in case the view ...

Subaru Telescope’s celebration of its 25th anniversary is wrapping up in March 2025. There have been multiple projects to ...

Towering over the Atacama Desert on Cerro Armazones, 3,000 meters above sea level, is the 80-meter steel dome of the Extremely Large Telescope, the largest and most powerful ever built. I'm standing ...

But for much of that time their view was blocked by clouds, a foot of snow, and, this August night—midwinter in Chile—humidity so high that the telescope dome had to be shut to keep out frost.