With the 2012 holiday season coming into its "home stretch," many people may be seriously considering the purchase of a ...

Larger aperture telescopes show brighter, clearer images. Different telescope types (refractor, reflector, compound) offer various pros and cons regarding cost, maintenance, and image quality. A ...

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Choose a telescope easy for a child to set up and use. Select a durable telescope that can withstand rough handling. Consider a simple telescope; complex ones can be discouraging. Prioritize a ...

Go outside right now. What’s the farthest thing you can see? A tree? A bird? What about the Moon? It’s 250,000 miles away. The Sun is 400 times farther than that, at nearly 100 million miles (but ...

When you look at the night sky, do you ever wonder what's going on out there? On a clear night with a dark sky, if moonlight doesn't wash it out, sometimes you can see the arc of the Milky Way. The ...

The Chandra X-ray Observatory, one of four great space telescopes NASA launched in the 1990s, revolutionized our understanding of the universe from the moment it first began recording X-rays ‒ the ...

The supernova exploded over 13 billion years ago in a galaxy far, far away.