Astronomy

This image released by Random House Children’s Books shows "Remember" by U.S. poet laureate Joy Harjo and Michaela Goade. (Random House Children’s Books via AP)This image released by Random House Children’s Books shows "Remember" by U.S.…

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Over the years, the Penn State Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics has hosted many visitors on the rooftop of Davey Lab for evening telescope observing programs, and each year hundreds more participate in…

About six months have elapsed since the most powerful space telescope in history bid farewell to Earth and took off into the darkness. In that time, the James Webb Space Telescope has deployed its gold-coated mirrors, turned on its…

Photographs from space are currently nothing like we've seen before. With the James Webb Telescope taking unprecedented images of the deepest we've seen of the universe, the Hubble Telescope snapping colliding galaxies, NASA's Mars…

The Saturday Evening Astronomy Talk & Telescope Viewing at Mt. Wilson Observatory is scheduled for July 2 beginning at 5:30 p.m.; $40Trails are open at Palomar Mountain State ParkScenic gondolas are running at…

The ScopeTech STL-80A Maxi, photographed here on the author’s iOptron CubePro mount, epitomises what a refractor should look like. All images: Steve Ringwood. Although exotic Extra-low Dispersion (ED) glasses have enabled triplet…

ScopeTech’s Mount Zero, which is a versatile and compact alt-az mount. Image: First Light Optics. Short, ready-to-go telescopes have burgeoned in popularity since the devising of the special ED (Extra-low Dispersion) glasses that has…

The Science Near Me blog is a partnership between Discover magazine and ScienceNearMe.org.Today, more women than ever are studying space. The number of female physicists, astronomers, mathematicians and more is steadily rising, after…

The Explore Scientific 305mm Ultra Light truss-tube Dobsonian is actually quite heavy, weighing nearly 30 kilograms. Image: Explore Scientific. The elegant simplicity of Isaac Newton’s two-mirror reflecting telescope design from 1668…

Messier 10 in Ophiuchus is the finest globular cluster lying within Ophiuchus’ territory. Image: Bernhard Hubl. It’s exciting to observing the multitude of bright globular clusters, incredibly dense balls of stars that provide striking…