A "selfie" taken by the James Webb Space telescope during the early stages of calibration process. NASA SHARE Focusing a six-ton, $10 billion space telescope isn’t as simple as turning the focus ring ...

Getting your first telescope should feel exciting, not frustrating. If I avoid a few common beginner mistakes, I can turn ...

After weeks of microscopic adjustments, NASA unveiled the first fully focused image from the James Webb Space Telescope Wednesday, a razor-sharp engineering photo of a nondescript star in a field of ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has snapped its first in-focus image. The milestone comes after the mission team spent the last few weeks aligning its mirrors, and the telescope is now set to meet or ...

The Stellarvue SVX 152T telescope boasts exceptionally high optical quality (Strehl ratio near 1.0). It's a large, 6-inch aperture refractor ideal for astrophotography and visual observation. The ...

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The brand new Vera Rubin telescope is about to begin its 10-year mission to offer the newest cosmic perspective we’ve had in a long time. For Big Picture enthusiasts like myself, such an ...

We’ve all seen spectacular pictures of space, and it’s easy to assume that’s how it looks to the naked eye through a nice telescope. But in most cases, that’s simply not true. Space is rather dark, so ...

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If you're new to astronomy and trying to work out which telescope to buy, it can be tricky to get your head around all the technical terms. So if you've ever found yourself browsing telescopes and ...

Today, NASA announced that it has successfully completed two further steps to align the mirrors of the Webb telescope. The resulting performance indicates that Webb will meet or exceed its design ...