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The so-called "Extremely Large Telescope" is being built on a mountaintop in the Andes at an elevation of about 3,000 meters. And it really is extremely large.

Hubble Space Telescope's 35th anniversary: See NASA's new out-of-this-world images The Hubble Space Telescope, launched 35 years ago, has blown our minds with its striking images of far-away ...

The James Webb Space Telescope mirror acts like a bucket, gathering faint light from distant stars. (Reuters) These instruments can take pictures, break light into spectrums (like a rainbow), and ...

The James Webb Space telescope has changed astronomy. It has revealed amazing new stars, galaxies and information about the Universe. This article contains everything you need to know about this ...

A composite illustration of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope with Earth and the sun in the background. Jürgen Fälchle/Alamy Stock Photo. Elements of this image furnished by NASA ...

A rare look at NASA’s next sharp-eyed space telescope In a giant “clean room” in Maryland, engineers are assembling the Roman telescope, aiming for launch no later than 2027.

Credit: NASA "Telescopes are like giant light buckets. The bigger the bucket, the more it collects," Tucker said. "James Webb is bigger than Hubble.

Telescopes that capture visible light are known as optical telescopes, and the science done with them is called optical astronomy. But there's an entire electromagnetic spectrum, of which the ...