MIAMI — It's 8 p.m. in Room 238 of the Chemistry and Physics Building at Florida International University's main campus. James Webb touches his keyboard. Exactly 2,303 miles away, a dome swings open.

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Like many other hobbies, astronomy can be pursued on many levels, with equipment costs ranging from the affordable to the – well, astronomical. Thankfully, there are lots of entry-level telescopes on ...

An ingenious tinkerer over at Cloudy Nights Telescope Reviews decided that the standard remote for his Orion Atlas EQG telescope was too clunky. So he decided to modify the telescope to be controlled ...

The so-called telescope farm is the brainchild of amateur astronomer Bray Falls, who turned his passion into a business when he co-founded the company Starfront Observatories 18 months ago. "It has ...

Scanning the heavens with a telescope is a great way to spend long, clear winter nights, but using a manual telescope can get to be a drag. A motorized mount with altitude and azimuth control is basic ...

A team of Control Engineering researchers at the Public University of Navarra has successfully finalised their work on QFT Multivariable Robust Control of Darwin-type Satellites with large flexible ...

The McDonald Observatory’s 82in Otto Struve Telescope turns 85 years old this month! Join them from the telescope’s control room as they celebrate by showing you what goes on behind the scenes, talk ...

What’s 42 meters in diameter and needs 3,000 actuators? The answer: The world’s largest telescope, the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT), which is now being planned by an organization called ...

Observations with ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) have enabled an international group of astronomers to study in unprecedented detail the surroundings of a very remote galaxy, almost 12 billion light ...

Large radio telescope systems are pivotal instruments in modern astronomy and related fields, as they enable the capture of faint cosmic signals and support various high-resolution observational ...