The Kepler Space Telescope, named for astronomer Johannes Kepler, was NASA's first exoplanet hunting telescope. It launched on March 6, 2009, with the goal of observing more than 100,000 stars in ...

Telescopes have multiple moving parts, finding celestial bodies is harder than it sounds, and some of the most advanced features can just get in the way if you’re simply hoping for a better look ...

NASA’s GUSTO balloon telescope will map part of the Milky Way The first to be funded as part of the Explorers Program, GUSTO will spend at least 55 days floating above Antarctica.

Press Release NASA Completes First Part of Webb Telescope’s ‘Eye Surgery’ Operation by SpaceRef May 15, 2013 ...

Damien Jemison, Giant Magellan Telescope/GMTO Corporation A 10-meter-wide lid is carefully lowered onto the furnace that will cast the telescope’s seventh primary mirror.

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 ...