Wide-field telescopes and eyepieces are best for viewing large nebulae. Dark skies and high altitudes improve visibility. Planning your observations, including target selection and timing, is crucial.

It's the first episode of Let's Dive In of 2021 and Julie and Phil are going to talk about star gazing and beyond as they tell us about telescopes. Julie is going to take it from here... Ahoy me ...

Broadly speaking, scientists use telescopes to see things that are very far away from Earth. As targets get smaller or farther from Earth, it takes a larger effective aperture to get a clear picture.

A new space telescope with Irish scientific involvement goes into operation this week on a mission to study how stars behave ...