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2. The best telescopes for beginners - AOL

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3. The Best Telescopes For Observing Our Solar System and Beyond

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   There are a dizzying number of telescopes out there. These expert-selected models from Celestron, Orion and others are a great place to start your search. The Best Telescopes For Observing Our ...

4. List of astronomical instruments - Wikipedia

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   Telescope: instrument that makes distant objects appear magnified; Torquetum: medieval astronomical instrument; Triquetrum: ancient astronomical instrument; Volvelle: paper construct with rotating parts, may be considered a subclass of slide chart or movable book; Zenith telescope: type of telescope that points straight up

5. List of space telescopes - Wikipedia

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   Positioning an optical telescope in space eliminates the distortions and limitations that hamper that ground-based optical telescopes (see Astronomical seeing), providing higher resolution images. Optical telescopes are used to look at planets, stars, galaxies, planetary nebulae and protoplanetary disks, amongst many other things. [150]

6. List of astronomy websites - Wikipedia

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   The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia [9] is an astronomy website, founded in Paris, France at the Meudon Observatory by Jean Schneider in February 1995, [10] [11] which maintains a database of all the currently known and candidate extrasolar planets, with individual "note" pages for each planet and a full list interactive catalog spreadsheet ...

7. Visible-light astronomy - Wikipedia

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   There are three main types of telescopes used in visible-light astronomy: Refracting telescopes, which use lenses to form the image. Commonly used by amateur astronomers, especially for viewing brighter objects such as the Moon, and planets, due to lower cost and ease of usage. Reflecting telescopes, which use mirrors to form the image ...

8. NASA's Webb telescope spots 6 rogue planets: What it says ...

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   Unlike its predecessor, the Hubble Space Telescope, Webb can observe the universe in infrared light, which allowed the cosmic observatory to see through the dust obscuring the view of star formation.

9. List of largest optical reflecting telescopes - Wikipedia

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   This list of the largest optical reflecting telescopes with objective diameters of 3.0 metres (120 in) or greater is sorted by aperture, which is a measure of the light-gathering power and resolution of a reflecting telescope. The mirrors themselves can be larger than the aperture, and some telescopes may use aperture synthesis through ...