The world's largest astronomical camera has been installed on Palomar Observatory's 48-inch Oschin Telescope in California. This telescope has been working to improve our understanding of the universe ...

The Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope has captured its first on-sky images with the production Sinistro CCD camera. Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope (LCOGT), with first lights at nine ...

On a mountaintop in northern Chile, the world’s largest digital camera is preparing to power up. Its mission is simple yet ambitious — to photograph the entire night sky in extreme detail and unlock ...

TUCSON, Ariz (KGUN) — The most powerful space telescope ever made is coming into sharp focus through a camera designed by the University of Arizona. The James Webb Space Telescope is the product of ...

Although one can begin to explore amateur astrophotography with a smartphone camera or a webcam, today's tool of choice for this pastime is a special-purpose, cooled CCD camera. The case in point is ...

The nearly 20-year-old Hubble Space Telescope has taken many iconic images of the cosmos and is even the star of a new 3D IMAX movie that gives viewers a chance to fly through those snapshots. But ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Using a virtual-phase, thermoelectrically cooled CCD, a relatively inexpensive but very sensitive slow-scan camera has been built. The primary ...

In the eleventh year of its mission, the European Space Agency (ESA)'s Gaia space telescope has suffered a pair of technical snags. The telescope has spent its time in space precisely measuring the ...

Chris Welch is a former senior reviewer who worked at The Verge from 2011 until May 2025. His coverage areas included audio (Sonos, Apple, Bose, Sony, etc.), home theater, smartphones, photography, ...