On a wooded knoll on private property in Lake Angelus — less than a mile from the Great Lakes ... housing a 10.5-inch equatorial telescope. On July 1, 1930, the observatory officially began ...

At that time, astronomer Asaph Hall was a professor at the U.S. Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C. He was in charge of the great 26-inch-aperture (660 mm) telescope there, which, at the time ...

The Royal Observatory is the home of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), the Prime Meridian, and London’s Planetarium. There are historic clocks and telescopes and even the Great Equatorial Telescope ...

In a photograph made with an equatorial telescope and a long exposure ... On the following night the great refractor of the observatory was directed to the spot and a star-like object of the ...

While it is already dimming after a close encounter with the sun, Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) – also called the Great Comet of ...

“We [will be able to] move quickly and map out very large areas of the sky,” adds Josh Schlieder, the telescope’s wide-field ...

Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) seen above ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile on Jan. 21, 2025. ESO's Very Large Telescope sits atop ...

The next great ... telescope scheduled to begin inaugural observations — first light — this year. And NASA is avidly working up plans for a space telescope called the Habitable Worlds ...

The European Southern Observatory (ESO) is also constructing the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) nearby. This $1.5 billion telescope, featuring a 130-foot-wide mirror, will study exoplanet ...

LISA is set to revolutionize our understanding of the gravitational universe and the interactions that make the entire cosmos ...

Walking to the roof of Carnegie Science Hall to visit the college's observatory feels like being in a boat — the strange ...