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The space telescope Gaia has created the largest three-dimensional map of the Milky Way ever. On January 15, 2025, Gaia shut ...

The best telescopes allow you to observe this month's full planetary parade more closely and give you a front-row seat to the total lunar eclipse in March. The best telescopes unlock the wonders ...

It's so dark in there, but as your eyes adjust, you see standing upright mounted ... are open to the public and we'll let you look through the telescope. John Briggs: I'm, John Briggs, speaking ...

Canadian astronomers have taken an extraordinary step in understanding how planets are born, using the James Webb Space ...

Our expert reviewers have put these telescopes through their paces to give the pros and cons of each, exploring just who and what these scopes are best suited to. We've considered value ...

Around 2015, astronomers took on the painstaking task of stitching together Hubble Space Telescope images of this galaxy, but that effort had focused on the galaxy's northern half. Still, however, the ...

a space telescope), making distant light sources much clearer to see than they would be otherwise. But gravitational lenses can also warp light that passes through them, often into smooshed lines ...