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Telescopes are optical tools used by astronomers to visualize distant objects. There are many types of telescopes including optical, radio, X-ray, and Gamma-ray telescopes. The first known telescopes were invented in the Netherlands at the beginning of the 17th century.
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NOV 20, 2017Videos
If you were to ask a handful of professional astronomers what they thought one of the most intriguing things about outer ...Written By: Anthony BouchardNOV 16, 2017Space & Astronomy
Although Pluto resides 40 times farther from the Sun than the Earth, the once planet turned dwarf planet appears to be m ...Written By: Anthony BouchardNOV 15, 2017Space & Astronomy
Astronomers have been searching the galaxy for potentially-habitable exoplanets for years, but it’s not every day ...Written By: Anthony BouchardNOV 14, 2017Space & Astronomy
Astronomers are in awe after using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile to spy on a couple o ...Written By: Anthony BouchardNOV 09, 2017Space & Astronomy
An international team of astronomers are dumbfounded after discovering what appears to be a star that doesn’t want ...Written By: Anthony BouchardNOV 06, 2017Space & Astronomy
Astronomers employing the Near-infrared Integral Field Spectrograph (NIFS) situated on the Gemini North telescope in Haw ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 30, 2017Space & Astronomy
While astronomers witness asteroids and comets whizzing through our solar system on a consistent basis, it’s not e ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 26, 2017Space & Astronomy
Astronomers and planetary scientists alike appear confident about their theories regarding how the solar system’s ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 24, 2017Space & Astronomy
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is set to succeed the Hubble Space Telescope as the agency’s primar ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 18, 2017Space & Astronomy
It was just a few days ago that astronomers announced a breakthrough in gravitational wave research, and NASA deployed t ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 16, 2017Space & Astronomy
If you’ve been following astronomical research for the last couple of years, then you’ve likely caught wind ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 10, 2017Space & Astronomy
Astronomers are closely monitoring an asteroid dubbed 2012 TC4, which will make an uncomfortably-close encounter with th ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 08, 2017Videos
KIC 8462852, also known as Tabby's Star, resides more than 1,200 light years away from Earth and baffles scientists ever ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 06, 2017Space & Astronomy
One of the vital reasons we have observatories floating around in space, such as the Hubble Space Telescope, is that gro ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 04, 2017Space & Astronomy
Although the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will become Hubble’s successor, that’s not to say that it wil ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 28, 2017Chemistry & Physics
Credit: forplayday/thinkstock From the discoveries of Earth-like exoplanets to finding water in every corner of our sola ...Written By: Daniel DuanSEP 25, 2017Space & Astronomy
An ongoing problem for NASA, SpaceX, and other entities involved with space travel, is packing as much equipment as poss ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 24, 2017Space & Astronomy
While astronomers studied the asteroid belt in between Mars and Jupiter with the Hubble Space Telescope over the course ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 21, 2017Space & Astronomy
The James Webb Space Telescope will be the most powerful space telescope ever built, and it will succeed NASA’s Hu ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 18, 2017Space & Astronomy
Astronomers from both McGill University in Canada and the University of Exeter in the U.K. used the Hubble Space Telesco ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 05, 2017Space & Astronomy
Ask almost anyone you know what supernovae are, and you’ll probably hear how they’re the result of a star co ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 01, 2017Space & Astronomy
One of the biggest questions astronomers can ask after discovering new exoplanets is whether they’re habitable. Th ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 31, 2017Space & Astronomy
September 1st is the day that a massive 2.7-mile-wide asteroid dubbed Florence will safely pass the Earth at just 4.4 mi ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 27, 2017Space & Astronomy
Over the last several years, a distant system containing the star KIC 8462852 (also known as Tabby’s Star) has rec ...Written By: Anthony Bouchard
NOV 20, 2017
Videos
If you were to ask a handful of professional astronomers what they thought one of the most intriguing things about outer
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 16, 2017
Space & Astronomy
Although Pluto resides 40 times farther from the Sun than the Earth, the once planet turned dwarf planet appears to be m
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 15, 2017
Space & Astronomy
Astronomers have been searching the galaxy for potentially-habitable exoplanets for years, but it’s not every day
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 14, 2017
Space & Astronomy
Astronomers are in awe after using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile to spy on a couple o
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 09, 2017
Space & Astronomy
An international team of astronomers are dumbfounded after discovering what appears to be a star that doesn’t want
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 06, 2017
Space & Astronomy
Astronomers employing the Near-infrared Integral Field Spectrograph (NIFS) situated on the Gemini North telescope in Haw
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 30, 2017
Space & Astronomy
While astronomers witness asteroids and comets whizzing through our solar system on a consistent basis, it’s not e
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 26, 2017
Space & Astronomy
Astronomers and planetary scientists alike appear confident about their theories regarding how the solar system’s
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 24, 2017
Space & Astronomy
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is set to succeed the Hubble Space Telescope as the agency’s primar
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 18, 2017
Space & Astronomy
It was just a few days ago that astronomers announced a breakthrough in gravitational wave research, and NASA deployed t
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 16, 2017
Space & Astronomy
If you’ve been following astronomical research for the last couple of years, then you’ve likely caught wind
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 10, 2017
Space & Astronomy
Astronomers are closely monitoring an asteroid dubbed 2012 TC4, which will make an uncomfortably-close encounter with th
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 08, 2017
Videos
KIC 8462852, also known as Tabby's Star, resides more than 1,200 light years away from Earth and baffles scientists ever
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 06, 2017
Space & Astronomy
One of the vital reasons we have observatories floating around in space, such as the Hubble Space Telescope, is that gro
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 04, 2017
Space & Astronomy
Although the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will become Hubble’s successor, that’s not to say that it wil
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 28, 2017
Chemistry & Physics
Credit: forplayday/thinkstock From the discoveries of Earth-like exoplanets to finding water in every corner of our sola
...
Written By:
Daniel Duan
SEP 25, 2017
Space & Astronomy
An ongoing problem for NASA, SpaceX, and other entities involved with space travel, is packing as much equipment as poss
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 24, 2017
Space & Astronomy
While astronomers studied the asteroid belt in between Mars and Jupiter with the Hubble Space Telescope over the course
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 21, 2017
Space & Astronomy
The James Webb Space Telescope will be the most powerful space telescope ever built, and it will succeed NASA’s Hu
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 18, 2017
Space & Astronomy
Astronomers from both McGill University in Canada and the University of Exeter in the U.K. used the Hubble Space Telesco
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 05, 2017
Space & Astronomy
Ask almost anyone you know what supernovae are, and you’ll probably hear how they’re the result of a star co
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 01, 2017
Space & Astronomy
One of the biggest questions astronomers can ask after discovering new exoplanets is whether they’re habitable. Th
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 31, 2017
Space & Astronomy
September 1st is the day that a massive 2.7-mile-wide asteroid dubbed Florence will safely pass the Earth at just 4.4 mi
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 27, 2017
Space & Astronomy
Over the last several years, a distant system containing the star KIC 8462852 (also known as Tabby’s Star) has rec
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard