— -- As humans, we're limited by what we can see with the naked eye. While we're biologically suited to looking at things up close, our eyes can't zoom in to take a look at far-away objects. But ...
To capture higher-definition and sharper images of cosmological objects, astronomers sometimes combine the data collected by ...
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 ...
It’s Christmas morning. Snow is gently falling outside, cinnamon rolls are baking in the kitchen, and you just opened the present you’ve been dreaming of — a telescope! But after the initial ...
The Sun would be a far more powerful telescope than any humanity could create in the near future. But to use it, we need to get to 650 AU.