On a mountaintop in northern Chile, the world’s largest digital camera is preparing to power up. Its mission is simple yet ambitious — to photograph the entire night sky in extreme detail and unlock ...

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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 ...

Gazing at the night sky and pointing out constellations is all well and good, but the arrival of smart digital telescopes has given stargazers the power to capture and share celestial majesty with ...

Astronomers of the world will soon have an incredible new tool for observing the sun, in the form of the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope in Hawai’i. The Inouye Solar Telescope recently began its ...

Technicians are putting the final touches on the world's largest digital camera at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. The camera will be sent to Chile and installed on a telescope in the Andes.

Beloved educational brand LeapFrog’s Magic Adventures Telescope made it to our list of best toys for kids. The real digital telescope features up to 110x zoom magnification and includes a learning ...

Unistellar and Nikon have joined forces to create the Unistellar eVscope 2 digital astronomical telescope and equip it with an electronic viewfinder (EVF) designed by Nikon. The EVF provides ...

Arecibo Observatory’s 305-meter telescope in November of 2020. University of Central Florida/Arecibo Observatory It’s the end of an era for one of astronomy’s most famous telescopes. After a series of ...

It’s hard to overstate how awesome telescopes are. More than any other scientific instrument, telescopes represent “science”—and every geeky kid wants one to see the rings of Saturn with his or her ...

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