At its heart was the 36-inch Great Lick Refractor, which was once the world’s largest refracting telescope — a telescope that uses lenses to make faraway things look closer and clearer — which now ...

the Great Equatorial Telescope, the largest refracting telescope in the UK; the Annie Maunder Astrographic Telescope; the Prime Meridian; and the Shepherd Gate Clock. The main set of six stamps ...

Featured on the main set of six stamps are the Airy Transit Circle Telescope; Flamsteed House; the Great Equatorial Telescope ...

Following a multimillion-dollar expansion program in recent times, sudden harsh science cuts are challenging America’s ...

the Great Equatorial Telescope, the largest refracting telescope in the UK; the Annie Maunder Astrographic Telescope; the Prime Meridian; and the Shepherd Gate Clock. The stamps celebrate the ...

the Great Equatorial Telescope, the largest refracting telescope in the UK; the Annie Maunder Astrographic Telescope; the Prime Meridian; and the Shepherd Gate Clock. A further four stamps honour ...