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Summer observing targets for small telescopes
Telescopes 4 inches or less in diameter are portable, easy to use, and great beginner instruments. Here, I’ll walk through ...
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Summer observing targets for large telescopes
After 30 years of observing, I’ve compiled a list of some of my favorite deep-sky objects. These look best with a large ...
As Spain prepares for a rare trio of eclipses that begin in August 2026, this stunning city in the path of totality is ...
The image of supermassive black hole Sagittarius A * was created using data from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration.
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ESO telescopes observe a dramatic merger of galaxies
The Very Large Telescope (VLT) and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has captured a "violent cosmic ...
Gamma-ray burst GRB 260623A was detected by NASA’s Fermi telescope morning at 12:56 UTC Tuesday, triggering a global ...
New observations by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have eliminated the last remaining impact threat posed by asteroid 2024 ...
A high-stakes mission to save NASA's Swift Observatory from a fiery end has relied on Arizona. Here's an inside look ahead of ...
Astronomers may have witnessed one of the rarest and most dramatic cosmic events ever seen: a long-sought intermediate-mass ...
The two so-called super-puffs are the size of Jupiter, the biggest worlds found so far to have less density than cotton candy ...
Einstein Probe X-ray transient EP260623a was detected 6.8 billion light-years away in Pegasus on June 23, 2026, triggering a ...
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