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5 beginner telescope mistakes and how to fix them fast

Getting your first telescope should feel exciting, not frustrating. If I avoid a few common beginner mistakes, I can turn that confusing bundle of glass and metal into a tool that reliably shows the ...
AOL

The Quest to Build a Radio Telescope That Can Hear the Cosmic Dark Ages

Isolation dictates where we go to see into the far reaches of the universe. The Atacama Desert of Chile, the summit of Mauna Kea in Hawaii, the vast expanse of the Australian Outback—these are where ...
SpaceNews

SSTL to build spacecraft for private space telescope

WASHINGTON — Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. (SSTL), a British company best known for developing small satellites, will help build a large, privately funded space telescope. SSTL announced March 9 it ...
The Gazette

University of Iowa grad student lands NASA grant to build smaller X-ray telescope for deep-space navigation

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. IOWA CITY — When NASA in the summer of 2017 launched its Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer, or ...
AOL

The Quest to Build a Radio Telescope That Can Hear the Cosmic Dark Ages

Isolation dictates where we go to see into the far reaches of the universe. The Atacama Desert of Chile, the summit of Mauna Kea in Hawaii, the vast expanse of the Australian Outback —these are where ...