The telescope has the largest digital camera ever made. It’s so precise that one image alone contains 10 million galaxies.

Just one image from the LSSTCam covers an area equivalent to the size of 45 full moons in the sky.” That one statistic, from ...

The camera, now bolted to the end of a giant telescope at the Rubin Observatory, is expected to shoot photos of 20 billion ...

Firefly Sparkle,” a galaxy that existed about 600 million years after the big bang, has been imaged by the James Webb Space ...

Appendices Previous: Example of Observation Procedure Contents Example of FITS Headers and Tables Header unit SIMPLE = T / Standard FITS format BITPIX = 16 / Number of bits for each pixel NAXIS = 2 / ...

If you can catch this elusive planet in a telescope, you’ll spot a gibbous disk growing from 60 percent lit on the 1st to 77 percent lit on the 12th. Mercury quickly dips out of view after the ...

The massive dome measures 305 feet (93 meters) in diameter, or about the size of a football field and stands 263 feet (80 meters) tall. Construction of the world's largest telescope has reached ...

Although the telescope was replaced in 2009, the protective dome was not. Now, it’s seriously showing its age. “The dome is no longer weatherproof,” Gulliver explained.

The Great Telescope, also known as The Leviathan of Parsonstown, was built at Birr Castle Demesne in the 1840s by the Third Earl of Rosse. It was the largest telescope in the world at the time.

The frame of the dome that will house the world's largest telescope has been completed, marking another key milestone in the observatory's construction. The European Southern Observatory's (ESO ...

Telescope Innovations Corp., a developer of enabling technologies and services for the global pharmaceutical and chemical industries, announces its achievement of Certified Systems Integrator ...

Through a telescope Venus is 12″ wide and 84 percent lit. Mid-October will bring the highly anticipated Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS to the evening sky. It is 20° to 25° northwest of Venus on the ...