Well, any of us who has ever looked through a telescope could say the same, for the two principal types in use today were developed by giants: the refractor by Galileo and the reflector by Newton.

Isaac Newton was the first to really make it work. Newton's reflecting telescope consisted of a single curved main mirror, ...

New findings from the James Webb Space Telescope contradict traditional theories about early galaxy formation, revealing ...

The standard telescope of Newton's time, the refracting telescope, was not ideal. Its glass lenses focused the different colors inherent in light at different distances. This resulted, at the ...

The microcontroller allows a telescope, in this case a Newtonian SkyWatcher telescope, to track objects in the sky over long periods of time without any expensive commercially-available mounting ...

It's the lowest price we've seen this year for this telescope and the same price as last Black Friday. Save 14% on this 114mm push-to German Equatorial Newtonian telescope. The telescope ships ...

This month, Venus reaches its half-lit phase, known as a dichotomy, making it a prime target for astrophotographers. The ...

Astronomers first detected 2023 DZ2 on February 27, 2023 using the 100-inch Isaac Newton Telescope at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory on La Palma in the Canary Islands Astronomers first ...

Head to Wex Photo video for £36 off the award-winning Sky-Watcher Explorer-130 EQ2 telescope, or £20 off the version with motorised mount. The SkyWatcher EXPLORER 130 (EQ2) is a Newtonian ...

Credit: Galileo Galilei, 1610 Within sixty years, Isaac Newton had built his own new and improved reflecting telescope with a curved mirror, coated with a fine layer of reflective silver metal ...

His theory of optics made him reconsider the design of the telescope, which up until this point was a large, cumbersome instrument. By using mirrors instead of lenses, Newton was able to create a ...

Stargazing is enjoying a boom in popularity right now, and if you want to try it out, this is the offer for you: for today only, there's 25% off Celestron AstroMaster Newtonian telescopes.