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CINCINNATI (WXIX) - For the second time this year, Cincinnati Recycling and Reuse Hub and Astronomer Dean Regas have collaborated to keep telescopes from entering landfills. Astronomy expert Dean ...

For the first time, scientists have used Earth-based telescopes to look back over 13 billion years to see how the first stars in the universe affect light emitted from the Big Bang. Using telescopes ...

Astronomers from Japan and the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy have used telescopes at the Mauna Kea and Haleakala observatories to measure the distance to the farthest cosmic explosion ...

In an unprecedented discovery, a team of Canadian, U.S. and British astronomers have used telescopes atop the summit of a dormant Hawaiian volcano to capture images of three giant planets orbiting a ...

For thousands of years, humans observed the stars with nothing but our own eyes. But eyes can only get us so far, and to see all the way to the ends of the universe we needed to invent some tools. The ...

Sometimes, astronomy research requires looking down. Michigan State University (MSU) found the foundations of its first telescope observatory building, built in 1881 ...

The quantification of large optics demands metrology systems that operate in the context of turbulence, vibration and additional challenges. Figure 1. Measurement of large optics, such as this 8-meter ...

Michelle Lochner receives funding from the National Research Foundation and the Department of Science and Innovation. New telescopes with unprecedented sensitivity and resolution are being unveiled ...