"...The Space Telescope History Project, a joint enterprise of the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, and the History of Science Department, the ...

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The venerable telescope has changed markedly over the centuries, with different arrangements of lenses dominating for decades before succumbing to some combination of basic physics or technical ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This collection consists of the oral ...

The most powerful telescope to be launched into space has made history by detecting a record number of new stars in a distant galaxy. NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, history's largest and most ...

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

The world was gobsmacked last month when the James Webb Space Telescope released its first clutch of images, showing nebulae, galactic clusters, binary stars, and more. Things have quieted down a bit ...

A new telescope — VISTA (the Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy) — has just started work at ESO’s Paranal Observatory and has made its first release of pictures. VISTA is a survey ...