During my college days in the late 1960s, I didn’t own a car and often had to hitchhike to get from place to place. Nowadays, I would never recommend this mode of travel (I’m older and perhaps wiser, ...

Pick up almost any book that talks about telescopes, eyepieces, and magnification, and the author will probably expound the “60x-per-inch rule” or “2.4x per millimeter.” This means you shouldn’t pump ...

From nebulas and galaxies to star clusters, the sun and the moon, here’s what to image in the night sky using a smart ...

If you're wondering what kind of telescope you need to see Saturn and Jupiter, you're halfway to the answer. Although either of the two main types of telescope — refractors and reflectors — can be ...

Michael J. I. Brown receives research funding from the Australian Research Council and Monash University. While the unaided eye or binoculars can reveal much of the night sky, a telescope reveals so ...