The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, set to launch in May 2027 with a 288MP camera, will “unveil the cosmos to the edge of the observable universe” ...

On a mountaintop in northern Chile, the world’s largest digital camera is preparing to power up. Its mission is simple yet ambitious — to photograph the entire night sky in extreme detail and unlock ...

B NASA recently put the finishing touches on a telescope set to become the agency’s flagship infrared space telescope, but it ...

If you've ever tried to take a photo of the moon and stars, you know that astrophotography is incredibly challenging. Although there are tips and tricks for taking astrophotos on your cell phone, to ...

Funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory is an 18-story facility that will repeatedly scan the sky for 10 ...

Images from the world’s largest camera, built in the Bay Area, have just been released, providing a first-of-its-kind window across deep space. Over the next decade, the device, mounted on a telescope ...

This has been called the golden age of astronomy, and there’s a new telescope on the block — or, more precisely, on top of a mountain in Chile. The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, funded by American ...

NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory, funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science, has achieved a major milestone with the installation of the ...

The world’s biggest and most iconic radio telescopes are joining forces with a bold aim – to make new images of black holes and their surroundings, in detail and in new colours. In Sweden, Chalmers ...

Anthony Wesley, an amateur astronomer from Australia, has combined an industrial camera with image sensors to capture high-resolution pictures of earth’s neighboring planets, including Venus, Mars, ...

Telescope, Schmidt type, made by Charles A. & Harold A. Lower. The Schmidt comera was invented by Bernard Schmidt in Germany in 1930. It is an ingenious mirror/lens combination which gives a coma-free ...