There are eight official planets (sorry, Pluto) in our solar system: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. But astronomers have spent the better part of a century ...

At a basic level, all scopes on the market can be labelled as refractors or reflectors. Refractor telescopes use specialised lenses to gather and focus light into an image, displaying a magnified ...

SynScan GoTo are all excellent computerised telescopes. Deciding on which one is best for you will largely depend on your budget, whether you’re a keen solar system observer, want to bring those ...

3 min read The Hubble Space Telescope was designed to free astronomers ... Hubble also measures the atmospheres of planets outside our own solar system, exploring their compositions and building ...

Publications of the Astronomical Society... In this paper, we investigate the opportunities provided by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) for significant scientific advances in the study of Solar ...

The James Webb Space Telescope achieved a rarity — snapping an image of a planet beyond our solar system. The exoplanet, ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has delivered a groundbreaking view of the early solar system, focusing on icy celestial bodies such as trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) and centaurs.

An illustration of the James Webb Space Telescope as it orbits the sun in our solar system, 1 million miles from Earth. Credit: SA GSFC / CIL / Adriana Manrique Gutierrez The James Webb Space ...

Planet Nine, a massive icy world, may be lurking at the outer edge of our solar system, awaiting discovery by advanced telescopes. "It's really difficult to explain the solar system without Planet ...

The telescope isn’t in the path of totality, instead getting a 50% partial solar eclipse, but that will be useful since the aim is to study the subtle changes to the sun's radio emissions as ...

For another Newtonian reflector telescope with a similar aperture ... enough to be used for faint deep sky objects as well as solar system objects. It could also be a fantastic first step in ...