And with a more powerful telescope, you'll be able to see stars, and planets.

The future telescope CTA will help to answer this question.

The galaxies were photographed in 2002 by the Hubble Space Telescope.

The first telescopic observation of Mars was by Galileo Galilei in 1610.

Dmitri Maksutov built a prototype for a similar type of meniscus telescope, the Maksutov telescope, in October 1941 and patented it in November of that same year.

The next night, the fading object, by now down to magnitude 20, was imaged by the Keck telescope, and the 2.6 meter Nordic Optical Telescope in the Canary Islands.

The software maps out and labels most of the constellations, planets, and objects you can see with a telescope.

This enables anyone to control a telescope a large distance away in a dark location.

Taken on April 1, 1995, it was named one of the top ten photographs from Hubble by Space.com.

It was the second of the series to be launched into space, following the Hubble Space Telescope.

In this image of the Tokyo skyline, I've hidden data from the newest planet hunting space telescope on the block, the Kepler Mission.

MOSFIRE, a new instrument at the Keck Observatory that is extremely sensitive to infrared light, proved instrumental to this finding.

The two key telescope properties are 1.45 0.5 m primary mirror for each telescope 1.0 0.5 m focal plane array on which light from both telescopes is projected.

In 1857, Foucault invented the polarizer which bears his name, and in the succeeding year devised a method of testing the mirror of a reflecting telescope to determine its shape.

It is part of the Delta Works and it is one of largest moving structures on Earth, rivalling the Green Bank Telescope in the USA and the Bagger 288 excavator in Germany.

By using a telescope which flew at over 42,000 meters high, it was possible to reduce the atmospheric absorption of microwaves to a minimum.

He said, The explorers of 2012, if there is anything left to explore, will no doubt carry pocket wireless telephones fitted with wireless telescopes.

The largest monolithic mirror in use are currently the two primary mirrors of the Large Binocular Telescope, each with a diameter of 8.4 meters.

He promoted the study of astrophysics in Argentina and pushed for the construction of a large telescope (the Bosque Alegre telescope), which however was not completed until 1942 (he had retired in 1936).

Well, again, it's dark out there to human senses. But all you've got to do is take a telescope, even one of present day design, look out and you'll see the same galaxies as we do from here.

And if you take a camera and you point it at a random part of the sky, and you just keep the shutter open, as long as your camera is attached to the Hubble Space Telescope, it will see something like this.

Astronomers first managed to obtain a visible light image of a GRB as it occurred on January 23, 1999, using the ROTSE I telescope in Los Alamos, New Mexico.

It was reported on 1 August 2011, that molecular oxygen had been definitively confirmed in space with the Herschel Space Telescope , the second time scientists have found the molecule in space.

An early pioneer of radio astronomy was Grote Reber, an amateur astronomer who constructed the first purpose built radio telescope in the late 1930s to follow up on the discovery of radio wavelength emissions from space by Karl Jansky.

We would, they predicted, launch satellites, dispatch humans on orbital flights, assemble a large earth orbiting space station, build reusable space shuttles, construct space telescopes, and send humans to the moon, Venus, and Mars.

George's collection of mathematical and scientific instruments is now housed in the Science Museum, London he funded the construction and maintenance of William Herschel's 40 foot telescope, which was the biggest ever built at the time.

John Norris Bahcall (December 30, 1934 August 17, 2005) was an American astrophysicist, best known for his contributions to the solar neutrino problem, the development of the Hubble Space Telescope and for his leadership and development of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.

Image The image on the right is a composite of 25 hours of exposures taken by the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) during August and September 2005 using the B (blue 435 nm), V (visual 555 nm) and I (infrared 814 nm) filters.