When I was a teenager, new to observing the sky, I spent a year wandering across the Milky Way armed with nothing more than a pair of 7×50 binoculars. Then a miracle happened: I received a Celestron 8 ...

Astronomy is hard. Telescopes are fiddly, light pollution ruins much of what they can see anyway, and that’s before we even get to Mr Musk’s fleet of satellites spoiling the view. The Unistellar ...

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Are Orion or Celestron telescopes best? Are you looking to gaze into a clear night sky and see the planets with a starry background? Well, look no further than two of the best manufacturers available, ...

Unistellar's Odyssey Pro smart telescope delivers amazing results even from a light-polluted backyard — and we have the photographic evidence to prove it. Not only is the Unistellar Odyssey Pro an ...

The National Science Foundation’s Astronomy Senior Review report, released today, contains a variety of recommendations related to the National Optical Astronomy Observatory. “NOAO welcomes the ...

Go outside right now. What’s the farthest thing you can see? A tree? A bird? What about the Moon? It’s 250,000 miles away. The Sun is 400 times farther than that, at nearly 100 million miles (but ...

When you look at the night sky, do you ever wonder what's going on out there? On a clear night with a dark sky, if moonlight doesn't wash it out, sometimes you can see the arc of the Milky Way. The ...