This particular telescope is under construction in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile, one of the darkest places on Earth ...

Well, any of us who has ever looked through a telescope could say the same, for the two principal types in use today were developed by giants: the refractor by Galileo and the reflector by Newton.

Isaac Newton was the first to really make it work. Newton's reflecting telescope consisted of a single curved main mirror, coupled with a smaller flat mirror positioned at the focal point and ...

But the fact that the telescope was able to capture such an image at this phase shows how powerful the device will eventually be. The Visible Tunable Filter's (VTF) etalon, pictured here, consists of ...

From sparkling galaxies to gargantuan nebulae spanning thousands of light years across, check out these 7 rare images of ...