Most Planets Have No Known Date of First Observation . Before we begin, I want you to imagine a clear night sky you've ...

For centuries, telescopes have relied on curved lenses and mirrors to observe the Universe. A team of researchers has recently developed a flat, lightweight lens capable of capturing precise ...

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Making the far near The invention that set the stage for the telescope was the eyeglass, which appeared in the mid-13th century. The first spectacles, designed to correct farsightedness ...

Its distance is 1500 light years, meaning that the light we see from it left more than a thousand years before the invention of the telescope. The farther away an object in space lies, the longer ...

The invention of the telescope allowed astronomy to peer further and further still. Improving technology and better equipment implies that our modern telescopes allow us to see way beyond what our ...

The telescope is the invention that has allowed the great discovery of the universe itself. Over the millennia, humans built ever more elaborate constructions aligned with the heavens, revealing an ...

In use for a year-and-a-half on the Harvard College Observatory's 60-foot radio telescope ... recognition and encouragement of scientific invention." Tonight's medal recipients will include ...