Amazing facts about NASA’s space telescopesBoth Hubble and Webb are reflecting telescopes. They use curved mirrors instead of lenses to collect and "bend" light to their various instruments.

After decades of planning and construction, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory is about to begin a 10-year survey of the southern sky. This enormous telescope has already produced stunning new images ...

Object Details Summary This is a metal scale model of a modern ground based reflecting telescope: the model has a 5-inch primary and a smaller set of secondary mirrors on a rotating frame. The overall ...

Prasun Chaudhuri on a science camp for school children in West Midnapore steered by astronomers from the Indian Centre for ...

These are miscellaneous parts from the brass working model of a combination Newtonian/Cassegrain reflecting telescope (A19820361000). The model itself employs a 4.5-inch main parabolic mirror set in ...

A six-inch Dobsonian reflecting telescope is now available for one-week loans. "At first, hardly anybody was signing it out," said Gillian Mahen, assistant librarian.