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Types of Telescopes Telescopes that capture visible light are known as optical telescopes, and the science done with them is called optical astronomy. But there's an entire electromagnetic spectrum, ...

After more than six months of COVID-related closures, observational astronomy is largely getting back to work. Many of the world’s biggest telescopes have reopened their domes in recent weeks, ...

The article details the upcoming deployment of four next-generation telescopes: the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT), the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), and the Thirty ...

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Lunar exploration is undergoing a renaissance. Dozens of missions, organized by multiple space agencies—and increasingly by commercial companies—are set to visit the moon by the end of this decade.

More than 100 years ago, astronomer George Ellery Hale brought our two Pasadena institutions together to build what was then the largest optical telescope in the world. The Mt. Wilson Observatory ...

The University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy launched initial science operations for Robo-AO-2, a robotic laser adaptive ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have detected unexpected high-energy ultraviolet radiation around five ...