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The universe doesn’t revolve around Kitt Peak, but the observatory southwest of Tucson is at the center of what could be the biggest breakthrough in the study of the cosmos in decades. Using an ...

Optical telescopes utilize refraction and reflection to focus light, enabling detailed astronomical observations and ...

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If you're wondering what kind of telescope you need to see Saturn and Jupiter, you're halfway to the answer. Although either of the two main types of telescope — refractors and reflectors — can be ...

A technique called interferometry can greatly magnify tiny objects on the sky, and is powerful enough to reveal the surfaces ...

Euclid uses a method called 'step-and-stare to scan the night sky, which allows it to combine a bunch of separate ...

A new study says observations from the NASA Fermi space telescope suggest a halo of dark matter around the center of our ...