In the quiet darkness of his Mount Tabor backyard in Southeast Portland, Josh Romberg carefully points his 4-foot telescope at the North Star. Unlike amateur astronomers of decades past, he isn ...

Global Science, Local Telescopes While the discovery took high-level expertise, it couldn’t have happened without backyard telescopes and shared effort.

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 o… ...

If you have a very powerful backyard telescope and dark skies, you might be able to see Neptune’s largest moon, Triton. However, Triton will not be visible through most backyard telescopes.

One telescope, stationed in a remote area of Texas, gathered broadband data, capturing the galaxy's vast star fields and overall structure. Meanwhile, his second telescope, located in his backyard ...

Professional astronomers don’t make discoveries by looking through an eyepiece like you might with a backyard telescope. Instead, they collect digital images in massive cameras attached to large ...