"This book is uniquely about the relationship between the optical telescope and astronomy as they developed together. It covers the time between the telescope's pivotal invention in the 1600's up to ...

The past quarter of a century in astronomy has been dominated by large telescopes — but they are about to be usurped by some even larger ones. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...

MADISON — Five years after breaking ground on a South African mountaintop near the edge of the Kalahari desert, astronomers today (Sept. 1, 2005) released the first images captured by the Southern ...

It is the colours of a sunset that inspire Joseph Anderson, an astronomer at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in the high Atacama desert, in northern Chile. “They start off very blue and ...

I have been writing about the Giant Magellan Telescope for a long time. Nearly two decades ago, for example, I wrote that time was “running out” in the race to build the next great optical telescope ...

Over the past few years or so the most talked about kind of telescope was the one that is meant to operate in space. An understandable development, given the several such instruments that have been ...