Formerly the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, the observatory was renamed in 2020 to honor Vera Rubin, who died at 88 in 2016. Dr. Rubin’s work persuaded astronomers of the existence of dark ...

The telescope will catalogue billions of new objects and produce a new map of the entire night sky every three days with the largest digital camera ever made. High atop Chile’s 2,700-meter Cerro ...

It is designed for photography and video, sporting a manual aperture ring, a manual focusing ring, and a manual/autofocus switch on the side. There are no bells or whistles here, just everything ...

Use a 3- to 10-second exposure with night mode, or set ISO to 800-3200 in manual mode ... steer clear of cheap telescopes ...

There is also a manual aperture ring that can be set to A for camera control or used manually to input the desired setting. In terms of controls, there's a manual focus/autofocus switch ...

On this day three years ago, we witnessed the nail-biting launch of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the largest and most powerful telescope humans have ever sent into space. It took 30 ...

Day 25 of the 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: the most distant known galaxy. Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have found a record-breaking distant galaxy observed just 290 ...

Themiya Nanayakkara receives funding from Australian Research Council Laureate Fellowship. Ivo Labbe receives funding from Australian Research Council in the form of a Future Fellowship.

If you have a passion for the stars and are looking for the ideal first telescope, the Celestron Inspire 100AZ is the telescope you need.

Deploying a telescope in space is one thing. Making two of them deep under the sea is a task in a league of its own. On a ship bobbing in the Mediterranean Sea, physicists — not typically known ...