For most of us who are not astronomers, the image that comes to mind when describing a reflecting telescope is of a huge instrument in its own domed-roof building on a mountain top. But a reflecting ...

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Michael J. I. Brown receives research funding from the Australian Research Council and Monash University. While the unaided eye or binoculars can reveal much of the night sky, a telescope reveals so ...

Sir Isaac Newton once wrote, in what must be one of the most oft-quoted lines in the history of science, "If I have seen further it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants." Well, any of us who ...