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Questar is gone: The fate of the world's most famous compact telescope


Friday, July 3, 2026 by

Like a lot of amateur astronomers, I can still remember flipping through Astronomy magazine in the 1980s and stopping on those Questar ads. There it was, this small, polished, precision telescope photographed like a fine instrument, not just another piece of astronomy gear. I wanted one pretty bad b...

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Do galaxies spin


Monday, May 19, 2025 by

On a clear night, under the sweep of the Milky Way, one might gaze at the faint blur of the Andromeda Galaxythrough a telescope. It appears as a misty spiral, majestic yet eerily still. This leads to a profound question: do galaxies truly spin and move, or are those swirling shapes merely ...

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