Vaonis has added a new Mark II version of its Vespera smart telescope. The Vespera II offers higher resolution over the original Vespera, and other enhancments, in the same space-aged design as before ...

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The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) was designed to capture images of some of the most gargantuan structures in the universe — and a new observation just pushed it to its limits. In a study published in ...

According to the widely accepted Rayleigh criterion, in order to resolve two distant point sources, their angular separation must be larger than 1.22 (the wavelength of light divided by the ...

A ground-based telescope in Chile has shared its highest-resolution image ever, showcasing the final stages of star evolution within our galaxy 1,350 light-years from Earth. The telescope is ...

Unistellar's Equinox 2, debuting at CES, is smart enough to point itself at the stars, nebulas and galaxies you pick with your smartphone. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote ...

It will cost over $1bn, but the Giant Magellan Telescope promises high-resolution imagery of the universe as never seen before. Unlike the James Webb Telescope, the Giant Magellan Telescope is a ...

The Webb Space Telescope has been dutifully beaming back incredible imagesof the cosmos since its “perfect” alignment earlier this year—but nothing is entirely perfect, even a $10 billion telescope.

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured images of three nearby galaxies with unprecedented resolution at infrared wavelengths, giving them a first look at star formation, gas and dust. Data has ...

Sometimes, in order to support an idea, you first have to discredit alternative, competing ideas that could take resources away from the one you care about. In the scientific community, one of the ...

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