telescopes
Citizen Scientists Helped Produce a Database of 300,000 Galaxies
Crowdsourcing may have saved nearly 29 years of work.
Mauna Kea in the Round
An inside peek at the tools astronomers get to play with everyday on the top of a volcano in Hawaii.
A Weather Balloon Carrying a Sun Telescope Is Currently Floating Towards North America
Don't worry, Norwegians; that's an identified flying object.
The World's Biggest Optical Telescope is European and Extremely Large
While the United States' space program may be withering up into a sad nostalgic raisin, at least the Europeans are still thinking extremely large. Member states of the European Southern Observatory and a number of partners, including Brazil, have...
The World's Largest, Most Complex Telescope Opens Its Eyes for the First Time
The world’s newest, largest and most complicated telescope is now officially open for astronomy. Located high in the deserts of Chile, the European Southern Observatory’s Atacama Large Millimetre/sub-millimetre Array (ALMA)
A 5000 Megapixel 360° Panoramic Photo of the Galaxy Made by a Star Hobbyist Really Puts Your Morning In Perspective
This is making me feel especially tiny right now.
NOVA: A History of the Telescope (Video)
The telescope was one of the most disruptive inventions of all time. NOVA's 2010 documentary "Hunting the Edge of Space" illustrates how it came to be, from Galileo's refractor to Newton's reflector to the celestial discoveries by the musician William...