A technique called interferometry can greatly magnify tiny objects on the sky, and is powerful enough to reveal the surfaces ...

The earliest of the large telescopes, such as the twin 10-meter Keck telescopes in Hawaii, gathered the glory. The two Kecks achieved first light in 1993 and 1996. By 2000, astronomers using Keck ...

President Donald Trump’s “America First” agenda — or his ability to stick to it — is facing renewed scrutiny as the second-term president jets around the world, hosts a “Great Gatsby” party at ...

Michael J. I. Brown receives research funding from the Australian Research Council and Monash University. It’s a beautiful clear night. The stars are out and the Moon looks breathtaking against the ...

It’s a beautiful clear night. The stars are out and the Moon looks breathtaking against the sky, so you reach for your phone to take a snap. The results are, to be blunt, disappointing. Try again.

A pair of Sydney PhD students helped sharpen the view of humanity’s most powerful space observatory – without leaving Earth. As an indelible reminder of this thrilling result, Louis Desdoigts, now a ...

The brand new Vera Rubin telescope is about to begin its 10-year mission to offer the newest cosmic perspective we’ve had in a long time. For Big Picture enthusiasts like myself, such an ...

Enhance nighttime viewing with red-light flashlights that protect night vision. Improve telescope focus with a Bahtinov mask for sharper images. Capture celestial photos easily using a smartphone ...

An aperture mask is a device designed to increase a telescope's effective focal ratio and significantly reduce its light throughput. This modification can alter a telescope's optical characteristics; ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. The Very Long Baseline Array or VLBA is a network of 10 radio telescopes that spans from Mauna Kea, ...

Of all the mysteries that the massive James Webb Space Telescope has seen so far in the early universe, among the strangest are objects that astronomers now call "little red dots." Like the nickname ...