If, however, you want to go a step further and observe wildlife from further afield, you could consider a spotting scope ...

Go outside right now. What’s the farthest thing you can see? A tree? A bird? What about the Moon? It’s 250,000 miles away. The Sun is 400 times farther than that, at nearly 100 million miles (but ...

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The Large Binocular Telescope on Mount Graham, Ariz., has taken celestial images using its twin side-by-side, 8.4-meter (27.6 foot) primary mirrors together, achieving first “binocular” light. U.S., ...

As the year moves on, we are starting to see the return of the morning planets slowly become the evening planets. I am referring to the recent opposition of Saturn on Aug. 14 and the return of giant ...

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image: This set of magnified, cropped images shows NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft (highlighted in red) as it approaches Earth for its Sept. 22 Earth Gravity Assist. To improve visibility, the images ...