The best telescopes allow you to observe this month's full planetary parade more closely and give you a front-row seat to the ... Moon and planets into closer view, spot stunning star clusters ...

which was a lot of "celestial real estate" for Hubble's pinpoint view. So, the panoramic mosaic required hundreds of snapshots taken across 1,000 orbits by the telescope, according to a NASA ...

Shifting air pockets in the atmosphere block and distort light, limiting the view from even the most powerful Earth-bound instruments. Orbital telescopes function as eyes in the sky that allow ...

The resulting colossal image was stitched together from 600 different fields of view, is made of at least ... an astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute, told National Geographic ...