The Red Planet comes closest to Earth, disappears behind the Moon in an occultation, and finally reaches opposition in the ...

Or as Senior Editor of Sky & Telescope magazine, Alan MacRobert once noted: "Watching the moon cover or uncover bright stars gives a visceral sense of the moon's orbital motion. Try it!" ...

Sky and Telescope Magazine has a handy online tool to identify Jupiter's moons. Get to know how many mirrors your telescope is using. If it's an odd number, the image you see is reverse ...

The current version of each Starlink satellite weighs 573 lbs. (260 kilograms) and is, according to Sky & Telescope magazine, roughly the size of a table. Rather than sending internet signals ...

After retiring, he spent some time developing car wash systems and pursuing his many hobbies which included building telescopes, one of which was recognized in Sky and Telescope magazine (Dec. 2014).

The way space bends back on itself would mean that we would see repeat images of the same part of the universe in different parts of the sky as the ... Ay21/guth_inflation.pdf Jean-Luc Lehners ...

Venus is particularly bright in the night sky this month, outshining even Sirius, the brightest star. For observers at ...

Winter skies can be the clearest of the year and the richest in stars. Here are some of the constellations and planets to ...

Formerly the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, the observatory was renamed in 2020 to honor Vera Rubin, who died at 88 in 2016 ...

Save £70 on an excellent computerized telescope that features a database of over 40,000 night sky targets. It can locate and then track them, ideal for those wanting an easy stargazing experience.

Find the best telescopes to unlock the wonders of the night sky and view lunar occultations ... The general rule of thumb being a larger diameter telescope being used for the planets to revolve ...

Three years ago on Christmas Day, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the largest and most powerful telescope humans have ever launched into space, had its thrilling debut. Since then ...