The telescopes and eyepieces I initially employed showed me only a portion of the nebula, rendering it unrecognizable. Essentially, I was trying to discern the subject of a painting using a ...

The Vera C. Rubin observatory will host a “first look” event at 11 a.m. ET on Monday, June 23. You can watch it live right ...

When you set up at night, you can use the finderscope, which has a larger field of view, to find and center your target and then switch to the main telescope to view it. Some telescopes use a 1x ...

Refracting telescopes use lenses — combining at least two, and as many as four, pieces of glass — as their objective (the primary light-gathering device).

After more than 20 years in the making, we're finally about to see the first images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in ...

Students in grades 5 through 12 learned how to use telescopes. The kids will continue to engage in challenges like trying to find Saturn's rings with their new telescopes. Skip Navigation.