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This smartphone telescope brought tears to my eyes with stunning photos - how it works

zdnet.com Allison Murray 2025-09-21 11:30:25

Vaonis Hestia ZDNET's key takeaways The Vaonis Hestia is a smartphone telescope device that retails for $300. The Hestia does well at capturing detailed photos of planets and the stars, and an intuitive app helps guide you. It is an expensive device that takes some getting used to, and the better smartphone camera you have, the better quality photos you will get. $299 at B&H Photo-Video Amidst all the doomscrolling, TV binging, and overworking, we've forgotten to look up at the sky every once

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Full Moon: Seestar S50 vs. Samsung S25

news.ycombinator.com Nikolaos Papadopoulos 2025-09-24 13:31:49

The full moon is one of those sights that almost begs to be photographed, no matter what camera you’re using. Most of the time, that means a smartphone, and to be fair, modern phones are excellent at handling bright subjects like the moon. Of course, a telescope should reveal far more than a phone camera, but I wanted to see just how big that difference really is. So last night, under clear skies, I took two photos. Seestar S50 smart telescope : designed for astrophotography, with a larger ape

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Galileo’s telescopes: Seeing is believing (2010)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-16 11:33:43

Four hundred years ago, Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) was in a state of anxiety. In January, he had discovered four moons orbiting Jupiter. In March, he had published this and other remarkable discoveries made with his improved telescope in Sidereus Nuncius (‘The Starry Messenger’). But by the summer, he was becoming profoundly alarmed. He had offered philosophers and mathematicians in Venice, Padua, Florence, Pisa and Bologna the chance to look through his telescope and confirm his discoveries. S

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Scientists and engineers craft radio telescope bound for the moon

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-07 06:51:11

Scientists and Engineers Craft Radio Telescope Bound for the Moon With all major telescope components completed, the Lunar Surface Electromagnetics Experiment-Night is now undergoing final assembly enlarge LuSEE-Night undergoes final assembly at the Space Sciences Laboratory, following the completion of all major components by Brookhaven Lab and other collaborators. (Space Sciences Laboratory) UPTON, N.Y. — The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory has completed the

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Astronomical Telescope “Hadley” – an easy assembly, high performance Newtonian

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-11 08:31:10

You can now purchase screw/mirror kits at Kissner Optik. Official Discord server here. New instruction manual is here! See “other files.” I recommend the Hill Mount, Marci Mount or EMT remix over the one featured here. Wooden ones still are the best, but these pipe mounts are excellent, especially paired with a wooden friction bearing. Metric users: click here, and see other remixes. Lastly, never point one of these at the sun - it can melt your eyes. Featured in Sky and Telescop

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Astronomical Telescope "Hadley" – an easy assembly, high performance Newtonian

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-12 02:31:10

You can now purchase screw/mirror kits at Kissner Optik. Official Discord server here. New instruction manual is here! See “other files.” I recommend the Hill Mount, Marci Mount or EMT remix over the one featured here. Wooden ones still are the best, but these pipe mounts are excellent, especially paired with a wooden friction bearing. Metric users: click here, and see other remixes. Lastly, never point one of these at the sun - it can melt your eyes. Featured in Sky and Telescop

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The U.S. Could Lose a Crucial Futuristic Telescope to Spain if Trump’s Budget Passes

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-12-18 08:40:22

Spain has offered to spend up to €400 million ($471 million) to host the Thirty Meter Telescope, an enormous observatory project facing imminent cancellation due to U.S. budget constraints. If Spain strikes a deal, the TMT would be built on La Palma in the Canary Islands rather than on Mauna Kea, a mountain in Hawaii. In 2016, La Palma became the backup location for the observatory in case the primary site in Hawaii didn’t work out as an option, according to the TMT International Observatory. N

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James Webb Spots Planets Forming Into Solar System in Real Time, Like an Organism's First Cells

futurism.com Unknown 2026-01-04 08:30:53

Astronomers have spotted a planetary system being conceived from the swirl of gas and dust surrounding a star — giving us an unprecedented, real-time look at how our solar system would've formed some 4.6 billion years ago. The findings, published as a study in the journal Nature, are the first time we're seeing such an early stage of planets being formed anywhere in the cosmos. "We've captured a direct glimpse of the hot region where rocky planets like Earth are born around young protostars,"

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Tuesday Telescope: Webb and Hubble team up to reveal spectacular star clusters

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-01-28 22:00:49

Welcome to the Tuesday Telescope. There is a little too much darkness in this world and not enough light—a little too much pseudoscience and not enough science. We’ll let other publications offer you a daily horoscope. At Ars Technica, we’ll take a different route, finding inspiration from very real images of a universe that is filled with stars and wonder. Open clusters of stars—which consist of dozens up to a few thousand stars—are an interesting tool for astronomers to study the Universe. T

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NASA’S James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct image of an exoplanet

engadget.com Unknown 2026-02-21 08:23:48

NASA’S James Webb Space Telescope has captured direct images of a planet outside of our solar system, which is the first time it has accomplished such a feat. This is a very big deal because exoplanets don't put out much light, so researchers typically discover new planets through indirect methods like keeping track of shadows as they pass across a host star. Webb, however, didn't have to do all that. It has directly captured images of a planet called TWA 7 b . Scientists believe the planet is

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Tuesday Telescope: A new champion enters the ring

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-02-24 15:00:09

Welcome to the Tuesday Telescope. There is a little too much darkness in this world and not enough light—a little too much pseudoscience and not enough science. We’ll let other publications offer you a daily horoscope. At Ars Technica, we’ll take a different route, finding inspiration from very real images of a universe that is filled with stars and wonder. After a decade of construction a large new reflecting telescope publicly released its first images on Monday, and they are nothing short of

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The Largest Camera Ever Built Releases Its First Images of the Cosmos

wired.com Jay Bennett 2026-02-28 06:27:31

Perched atop the Cerro Pachón mountain in Chile, 8,684 feet high in the Atacama Desert, where the dry air creates some of the best conditions in the world to view the night sky, a new telescope unlike anything built before has begun its survey of the cosmos. The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, named for the astronomer who discovered evidence of dark matter in 1978, is expected to reveal some 20 billion galaxies, 17 billion stars in the Milky Way, 10 million supernovas, and millions of smaller objects

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First celestial image unveiled from revolutionary telescope

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2026-02-28 06:01:51

First celestial image unveiled from revolutionary telescope 4 hours ago Share Save Ione Wells South America correspondent Georgina Rannard Science correspondent Share Save NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory The first image revealed by the Vera Rubin telescope shows the Trifid and Lagoon nebulae in stunning detail A powerful new telescope in Chile has released its first images, showing off its unprecedented ability to peer into the dark depths of the universe. In one picture, vast colourful gas

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Latest Tech News

This smartphone telescope brought tears to my eyes with stunning photos - how it works

Full Moon: Seestar S50 vs. Samsung S25

Galileo’s telescopes: Seeing is believing (2010)

Scientists and engineers craft radio telescope bound for the moon

Astronomical Telescope “Hadley” – an easy assembly, high performance Newtonian

Astronomical Telescope "Hadley" – an easy assembly, high performance Newtonian

The U.S. Could Lose a Crucial Futuristic Telescope to Spain if Trump’s Budget Passes

James Webb Spots Planets Forming Into Solar System in Real Time, Like an Organism's First Cells

Tuesday Telescope: Webb and Hubble team up to reveal spectacular star clusters

NASA’S James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct image of an exoplanet

Tuesday Telescope: A new champion enters the ring

The Largest Camera Ever Built Releases Its First Images of the Cosmos

First celestial image unveiled from revolutionary telescope

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