1. Use of Telescopes to Study Celestial Phenomena

... telescopes. But as the technology advances and becomes more specific, dissimilarities among telescope designs become more marked. Nearly all the universe is invisible to us because we can only see light. ...

2. Meade Telescopes For the Serious Astronomer

... more efficient by the likes of Galileo. Telescopes use light and lenses to focus the light on objects in great detail. What happens to the light is it converges and you see an image that is much bigger ...

3. The Distances To Stars

... such huge numbers, astronomers use another unit of distance – a "light-year." Sometimes people get confused by the word "year" and think "light-year" is a measure of time. No, it's a measure of distance, ...

4. Astronomical Telescope – Amazing Link to the Stars

... works is quite simple.  A scope has a double lens; such lenses are where you look through to clearly see distant objects. The first of the lenses receives the light coming from the object and then throws ...

5. Lunar Watching Software Opens the Skies

... with the naked eye, be sure to look for the seas, plains, some craters and earthshine, a glow of light on the night side of the moon, which may be clearly visible. • If you are watching with binoculars, ...

6. New Planet, Red Star - "We Can Go There!"

... be working on this discovery the rest of the century. One of the astrophysicists on the team says the planet is 120 trillion miles from earth and 20 light-years away. "We can go there," he says. I don't ...