push the limits of the unknown for years to come. The new camera is known as QUEST (Quasar Equatorial Survey Team).

The NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory has begun operations in Chile with the world’s largest 3,200 MP LSST camera mounted in the 8.4-meter Simonyi Survey telescope, capturing the area of 45 moons with ...

Observing the night sky through a telescope is one of life’s great joys, and a wonderful way to learn about space and the universe beyond our planet. But perhaps even better is sharing that experience ...

The Venus Amateur Observing Project (VAOP) is an opportunity to contribute scientifically useful images and data to complement the Venus Express (VEX) spacecraft observations of Venus. The project ...

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In the early 1600s, Dutch spectacle maker Jan Lippershey discovered that combining lenses could magnify distant objects. Galileo Galilei quickly improved the designs and became the first to explore ...

A team of scientists representing several international institutions, including Texas A&M University, has succeeded in installing the first of three Antarctic Survey Telescopes (AST3-1) at the Chinese ...