as well as the instruments used to observe and understand them.' Astronomy & Geophysics '… gives a more unusual insight into the progress of astronomy and is all the more illuminating for this reason.

The teams behind two potential new space telescopes have embarked on their final design studies as they go head-to-head to ...

Observatories, by comparison, use optical telescopes from one to dozens of meters in diameter. The JWST's primary mirror is 6.5 meters across, and its digital instruments have detector arrays with ...

Meridian transit telescopes were also used for precise determinations of time ... The two clocks were essential instruments to observations with the meridian transit telescope. The clocks were ...

A group of researchers has used equipment originally intended for astronomy observation to capture transformations in the nuclear structure of atomic nuclei, reports a new study in Scientific Reports.