Telescope

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In celebration of the 29th anniversary of the launch of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers captured this festive, colorful look at the tentacled Southern Crab Nebula.

An amateur telescope builder reveals his process for designing and constructing his own Dobsonian telescope using CAD design and a CNC router.

a team of astronomers have discovered quasar tsunamis, 'the most energetic outflows ever witnessed in the universe', using NASA’s hubble space telescope.

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DIY Telescope (Grades 9-12): With the "Building a Telescope" activity, students use mailing tubes, convex lenses, and other household items to build refracting telescopes. Then, students compute the power or magnification of their telescopes. STEM activities. Optics lessons. Physical science lessons.

The James Webb Space Telescope is the world's premier space science observatory. Webb will solve mysteries in our solar system, look beyond to distant worlds around other stars, and probe the mysterious structures and origins of our universe and our place in it. Webb is an international program led by NASA with its partners, ESA (European Space Agency) and the Canadian Space Agency.

In the coming decade, three enormous telescopes will come online. See how they stack up in this SPACE.com infographic.

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