Telescopes are specialist optical instruments that have been around for over 400 years and are useful for many applications including seafaring, military operations and especially stargazing. But not ...
The winter months are fast approaching the Northern Hemisphere -- meaning longer, darker nights longed for by amateur astronomers. To the beginner, setting out on their first tentative steps to ...
The arid climate of Chile’s Atacama Desert is already one of the best places in the world to stargaze. But when the Giant Magellan Telescope opens there in the Las Campanas Observatory in 2025, it ...