#Telescope

Engineers at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, have completed their final inspection of a key element for the agency’s Nancy Grace

NASA’s Fermi telescope has detected what may be the first confirmed gamma-ray signal from a superluminous supernova — one of the most extreme explosions in the universe.…

We live in a golden age of astronomical imaging. Telescopes are capturing billions of galaxy images, painting the universe in breathtaking detail. But there's a problem, and it's a big one.…

The Moon, Venus, and Jupiter — the brightest celestial objects after the Sun — form up beautifully in twilight May 18, May 19, and May 20.

It strikes me as quietly ridiculous, sitting in Middlemarch with a telescope barely bigger than a coffee mug, peering 60 million light-years into...

The work of researchers from across Canada is at the heart of a massive new telescope that could help unlock some of the biggest mysteries of the universe from its perch at one of the highest elevations in the world.

When NASA's Artemis II spacecraft carried four astronauts around the Moon earlier this year, the world's largest fully steerable radio telescope was quietly watching from a quiet valley in West Virginia.…

From Engadget Full RSS Feed: Astronomers use the Webb telescope to improve our map of the cosmic web

One night last fall, University of Cincinnati astrophysics graduate Paul Smith waited anxiously for data to start rolling across his computer screen from the James Webb Space Telescope a million miles from Earth.

A spiral galaxy's brilliant heart outshines everything within sight in a new picture from NASA's Webb Space Telescope

From Independent RSS Feed: NASA testing next-gen space telescope that could help astronomers detect city-killing asteroids

This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image features the glittering spiral galaxy NGC 3137, located 53 million light-years away in the constellation Antlia (the Air Pump).

My telescope is a Heritage 130P, and this is my current equipment. Any ideas of what to get next? These are a tripod, a phone adapter, a ND, moon, blue light and a UHC filter, and a custom-made shroud when there are lights around me.…

M51 at the SkyWatcher 200 / 1000 telescope under a 4.2 bortle sky, with an iphone 15 pose of 30 sec with adapter

My first shots of our luna through my first telescope! So about a week ago I finally got to take my scope out for the first time. And let me tell you when I looked through that eyepiece and saw the moon I just straight up cried.…

This is my first moon pic taken in my first telescope. I don't know if it's well collimated, but I could take some real good pictures of the moon (I'm new in astronomy).…

I got chills and an overwhelming sense of pride when I found the moons and realized what they were

From Reddit - r/space: James Webb Space Telescope's strange little red dots may really be 'black hole stars', X-ray data suggests

My home telescope changes field in view from a sneeze although it is bolted to the balcony rail. How is space telescope stable if it kept in position with rocket engines? .