Ladies and gentlemen, prepare to have your minds orbited by the celestial wonder that is Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay, ...

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Human innovation has shaped the world as we know it. From the invention of the wheel 5,500 years ago, to the internet's conception in the 1970s, here are twenty inventions that created modern ...

Jupiter was a prime target of inventor and astronomer Galileo’s innovation, the telescope, in 1610. As he started tracking the movements of four little white dots around the planet, Galileo ...

This striking new perspective on an icon of the deep sky comes from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, which has rendered the spiral galaxy that looks like a broad-brimmed Mexican hat both in high ...

What’s more, you can easily observe Jupiter and its moons with a modest instrument, just like Galileo did over 400 years ago ... These are called, appropriately enough, the Galilean moons. Most ...

A brand new image snapped by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) reveals the intricate details of the core of the distant "Sombrero Galaxy." This galaxy, officially known as Messier 104 (M104 ...

Yep, both of them are Dutch inventions! In 1608 (one year before Galileo, say what?!), spectacle-craftsmen Zacharias Janssen and Hans Lipperhey from Middelburg developed the telescope. Two gentlemen ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has potentially smashed one of its own records again —- if scientists are correct, this trailblazing spacecraft may have glimpsed the earliest galaxies in the ...