Telescope sales climbed sharply in the months after the 1969 moon landing, turning a specialty item into a common household purchase. Many vintage department-store refractors carried genuine ...

As with most hobbies, there’s a point in almost every astrophotographer’s journey when the backyard stops being enough. If you get serious about astrophotography, you’ll soon enough be disappointed by ...

Here’s one for our astronomy geeks. Our hacker [arrow] has made their own observatory! This particular video is a bit over ten minutes long and is basically a montage; there is no narration or ...

Astrophotographer Greg Meyer has shared a breathtaking new view of the iconic Horsehead Nebula (Barnard 33) rearing its head 1,600 light-years from Earth in the constellation Orion. Meyer's image ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Astrophotographer Ronald Brecher has captured a breathtaking view of Markarian's Chain — a string of majestic galaxies glowing in ...