Camera obscura used to study sunspots
Large refracting telescope, Potsdam
Mounting for a refracting telescope
Illustration of a camera obscura
Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer
Hevelius observing with a telescope
Hevelius's plan for a tower observatory
Sunspots
Flower Observatory 18-inch telescope
Equatorial coude' refracting telescope
Peter Dollond, British optician
Microscope stage and lenses
Rosette nebula
Reflection nebula
Comet P2013 CU129
Comet C2011 L4
Observers using a refracting telescope
Flammarion Observatory, France
USNO Great Equatorial telescope
Moon's surface
Perseus A galaxy, X-ray image
Super star cluster Westerlund 1
Lord Rosse's reflecting telescope
Horizontal Moon
Lighting paper using the sun's rays
Binoculars under x-ray
Telescopes
VST image processing workflow
Observatory telescope
Dark matter and Abell galaxy cluster
Small Magellanic Cloud
Beine-Nauroy observatory, France
Overall view of COAST telescope system, Cambridge
Active galaxy, gamma ray image
Jones Emberson 1 planetary nebula
Spiral galaxy IC 1936
Supernova remnant Cassiopeia A
HESS gamma ray telescope, Namibia
Jellyfish nebula
Lunar eclipse
Reflection nebulae VdB 14 & 15
Globular star cluster M22
Globular cluster M53
Open star cluster NGC 457, optical image
Globular star cluster NGC 362
Globular star cluster NGC 6760, IR image
Alnilam star (Epsilon Orionis)
Planetary nebula PK164
Maffei I and II galaxies
Spiral galaxy NGC 2403, optical image
Active galaxy NGC 1055, optical image
Abell 1060 galaxy cluster
Klemola 44 galaxy cluster
M14 Globular Star Cluster, optical image
Nebula NGC 1760, optical image
Tulip nebula, optical image
Nebulae NGC 2020 and NGC 2014
Star trails over dome of Nordic Optical Telescope
McMath Solar Telescope at Kitt Peak
Planetary nebula IC 1295, telescope image
IC 2944 nebula, VLT image
Gemini South Telescope, interior panoramic view
Vera C Rubin Observatory, Chile, fishyeye view
SOAR and Gemini South telescopes, Chile
SOAR Telescope interior, Chile
Victor M Blanco telescope, interior view
Inside the SMARTS 1.5m telescope dome
Nicholas U Mayall Telescope during a total lunar eclipse
Kitt Peak National Observatory during a lunar eclipse
Amateur astronomical telescope
Herschel space telescope construction
Herschel Space Observatory construction
Replica of Newton's reflecting telescope
Solar observatory
Newton's catadioptric telescope, 1672
Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy, Chile
European Southern Observatory, La Silla, Chile
Volume phase holographic grating
Leon Foucault, French physicist
Camera lens
Optics of camera with no lens
Diagram of camera showing projection of an object onto film
Microscope lens in a laboratory
Elliptical galaxy NGC 1132
Galactic centre, gamma ray image
Galaxy IC 4870 with an active galactic nucleus, Hubble image
George Wilhelm Richmann, naturalist
Christiaan Huygens, Dutch physicist
Microscope binocular eyepiece
白衣の天の川
Zoom camera lens
Argentine National Observatory
Full Moon
2.2-metre optical telescope
3.5-metre optical telescope
GMT mirror manufacture
Harvest Moonrise
Speculum metal mirror for telescope
Very Large Telescope, Paranal Observatory, Chile
Halley's Comet, 1910
Comet 29P Schwassmann-Wachmann
Arnold Wolfendale, British astronomer
US Naval Observatory refractor telescope, 19th century
Anton von Leuwenhoek, Dutch microscopist
Glass cube optical component
Wide angle lens
Convergence and divergence
Telescope, X-ray
Coma galaxy cluster (Abell 1656)
Stars in globular cluster NGC 6397
Dwarf galaxy NGC 4449, HST image
43-metre radio telescope at Green Bank, USA
IC 2944 emission nebula
Barred spiral galaxy NGC 2903
Orion Nebula, infrared image
Spiral galaxies NGC 4302 and NGC 4298, HST image
Spiral galaxies NGC 4302 and NGC 4298, infrared HST image
Helmet Nebula, VLT image
Nebula RY Tauri
Emission nebula N44
Large Magellanic Cloud, annotated image
Big Dipper and Ursa Minor constellation
Cassiopeia constellation and Andromeda
Triangulum and Andromeda galaxies
Carina nebula
Globular cluster and planetary nebula
ROSAT satellite in checkout building
ROSAT being loaded into launch cradle
EXOSAT X-ray astronomical satellite
Spiral galaxy NGC 1365, HAWK-I image
Globular star cluster M55, infrared image
Nebula and star cluster NGC 6604
Triangulum Galaxy, 19th century
Wild Duck star cluster (M11)
Omega Centauri (NGC 5139) composite image
Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope sky map
Gamma ray burst 080916C
Active galaxy NGC 1275, gamma ray image
Omega nebula
Andromeda galaxy (M31), infrared image
Spiral galaxy NGC 2841, infrared image
Colliding galaxy NGC 6240
Triangulum galaxy (M33)
Triangulum galaxy (M33), infrared image
Galaxy cluster MACS J0717
Supernova 1987a remnant, artwork
European Extremely Large Telescope
James Webb Space Telescope mirror
SuWt 2 planetary nebula
Spiral galaxy M74
Spiral galaxy NGC 2397
Kitt Peak National Observatory
Active galaxy NGC 1275, HST image
Supernova remnant N132D, X-ray image
Stellar jets HH 46/47, infrared image
Heart and Soul nebulae
Bubble nebula
Butterfly nebula (IC 1318)