can we see galaxy with star telescope?
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Definitely! If you know where to look you can see them with the naked eye. Take your scope out in the darkest area you can find.I.E, the country. The easiest ones to find are spirals. They may look a little fuzzy but you should be able to see the spiral.
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There was a study done by a group of Australian astronomers where they calculated (somehow) that there are approximately 70,000 million million million (or 70,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) stars in the known Universe, which means these are just the ones that we can see with our telescopes.  This is supposed to be 10 times the number of grains of sand on all the beaches and deserts in the world.
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The Andromeda galaxy was the first one to have individual stars seen in the big telescopes in the early 20th century. Studying those individual stars helped determine the distance to the galaxy and the idea that galaxies are like islands with huge amounts of stars, not just clusters within our own galaxy (Milky Way). This was done by Hubble.\n\nBy the way it is the closest major galaxy to us, but there is a small family of about 30 known galaxies, mostly small, that Andromeda and our galaxy are a part of. Called the "Local Group". Many of these are closer to us than Andromeda.\n\nIn a small telescope and dark skies away from the city, you can see two dwarf galaxies near Andromeda. By the way don't get a telescope from Walmart or Ebay or the Shopping Network, those are junk. Check out Orion Telescopes on the web, via mail order. (I'm not affiliated with them).
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To begin, it's unfortunate that many people cannot see beyond their everyday, boring. Job, home, sleep - repeat until you get old and die. Thinking about the Universe teaches us about ourselves. As Carl Sagan always said, "We are made of star stuff!". Every single thing on Earth is made of of atom and molecules that once burned inside stars. Every atom in our bodies come from stars. Like it or not, we are directly linked to the Universe.\n\nOn average, there are 100,000 stars in every galaxy. And galaxies hang out in groups of a few hundred. If you look at very foamy suds in your sink, that's how scientists see the Universe - there are empty spaces but the white foam around the bubbles would be where all the galaxies are.\n\nRight now, the best telescope that can see the farthest is the Hubble. A few years ago, scientists working with the Hubble pointed it at one of the darkest regions in the night sky. All other telescopes saw only the deepest black. But when Hubble's images returned they saw thousands of galaxies (see Hubble Heritage - Deep Field). Light travels at 160,000 miles per second. That's pretty fast but over great distances it still takes time for light to travel. The deeper you look into space, the farther back you're looking into time. Those faraway galaxies Hubble photographed were 24 billion light years away! So we're seeing 24 billion years into the past. The Universe is estimated to be 27 billion years old so we're close to seeing the Universe in its begining.\n\nIf you have the time, check out the Hubble Heritage site. A lot of people say that seeing its images is uplifting and inspirational. Maybe these images will ease your mind.
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It would be pretty hard to view asteroids in real time as most are quite far, and I don't think Hubble or any of our other telescopes offer real time data to the public, but I would peruse around NASA's website.  I do know that you can watch generalized satellite feed but as far as specifically seeing asteroids, you might have a hard time.  It's not much of consolation, but I know they have photos of asteroids.
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Yep, check out the Meade Telescope site.  Great new stuff in astronomy.
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Download and run the program Stellarium from sourceforge.\n\nIts open source, and if you give it your location and the date/time it will show you the night sky for you locally and identify all of the constellations.
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No, they are not.  Take, for example, Orion's constellation.  In the sword part of his constellation lies a galaxy that is shaped much like the Milky Way, and can be seen even through a low powered telescope as a cluster and not a single star.  With the naked eye, however, it looks like a single star.
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4 In recent centuries astronomers who scanned the heavens with early telescopes noticed some fuzzy, cloudlike formations. They assumed that these were nearby clouds of gases. But in the 1920’s, as larger, more powerful telescopes came into use, these “gases” were found to be something far more immense and significant: galaxies.\n\n5 A galaxy is a vast group of stars, gas and other material rotating around a central nucleus. Galaxies have been called island universes, for each one of them is in itself like a universe. For example, consider the galaxy we live in, which is called the Milky Way. Our solar system, that is the sun and the earth and other planets with their moons, is part of this galaxy. But it is only a very tiny part, for our Milky Way galaxy contains over 100 billion stars! Some scientists estimate at least 200 to 400 billion. And one science editor even stated: “There could be as many as five to ten trillion stars in the Milky Way galaxy.”2\n\n6 The diameter of our galaxy spans so vast a distance that if you could travel as fast as the speed of light (186,282 miles a second) it would take you 100,000 years to cross it! How many miles is that? Well, since light travels about six trillion (6,000,000,000,000) miles in a year, multiply that by 100,000 and you have the answer: our Milky Way galaxy is about 600 quadrillion (600,000,000,000,000,000) miles in diameter! The average distance between stars within the galaxy is said to be about six light-years, or about 36 trillion miles.\n\n7 It is almost impossible for the human mind to comprehend such size and distance. And yet, our galaxy is just the beginning of what is in outer space! There is something even more staggering. It is this: So many galaxies have now been detected that it has been said they “are as common as blades of grass in a meadow.”3 About ten billion galaxies are in the observable universe! But there are many more beyond the range of today’s telescopes. Some astronomers estimate that there are 100 billion galaxies in the universe! And each galaxy may contain hundreds of billions of stars! I don't think there's an end in sight.
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Its discovered a lot of new galaxies, moons, comets, etc.  It is finding out lots about black holes etc.  I think astromers are finding out new things about our universe all the time thanks to the Hubble Telescope.
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It's the only object outside our own galaxy visible with the naked eye. But you have to be in a very dark area, i.e. well away from any major cities.
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The James Webb Space Telescope is being built to replace Hubble. The Webb Telescope will be a large, infrared space telescope designed to provide even clearer pictures of our Universe than those received from Hubble. It's going to have a mirror that is about 2 1/2 times the diameter of the Hubble Mirror. ( The Hubble's mirror is 94[?] inches in diameter I believe, and the Webb Telescope mirror will be made up of 18 diagonal mirror pieces that will be about 250 inches in diameter.) It's also going to be about a million miles away from the bright Earth and have a Sunshade the size of a Tennis Court! The telescope's name sake, James Webb, was NASA's second Administrator years ago.\n   With telescopes, it's not really a question of "power." With my telescope the "power" depends on the eyepiece I use. It is actually more about how much light you can "gather." Think of it as being in a completely dark room with a magnifying glass and a flashlight. The powerful magnifying glass is really useless in the dark, but the flashlight could help you see anything and everything in the room, right? Well, space is about the darkest "room" you will ever find especially for looking deeper and deeper into the Cosmos. The bigger the mirror you have to detect the faintest stars and galaxies, the better.  These telescopes really aren't made to see really bright things- that's why you have never seen a Hubble photograph of the Moon. From Hubble's orbit just above the Earth, the Moon is just too bright.\n This may not be the most satisfying answer to your great question- I get that question all the time when I bring my telescope out- but I think you can see the advantage of having a flashlight in that dark room especially if you don't know where all the furniture is!!!
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Almost none. The Andromeda spiral is visible without a telescope or binoculars and the Magellanic clouds are also. There are the only galaxies visible without some optical aid. The previous poster forgot the Magellanic clouds, which are visible from the southern hemisphere.
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yes u can see them .go far awy from city where there is vry less artificial light source n enjoy this event at dark night .u can see them moving as though a star is moving . satellite don't flicker.\n\nor see tht in film the octubar sky.
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Hi, great question.  I got a new telescope a year ago and have found a couple of excellent sites.  First try 'skyandtelescope.com'  this site has several features including a sky chart.  Enter your info, and it gives hour by hour info on whats up there to see, as well as info on upcoming events.  It offers 'how to advice' for telescopes, binocs and  astro photography.\nThe second is 'astromart.com'   this is one of THE BEST and most helpfull sites I have been to.  What a great forum.  Several active members are well known scientists and professors as well as very knowledgeable amature astronomy buffs.  No question is to stupid for them and you won't find a better place to gain advice and knowledge.   Questions posted are answered very quickly, usually in no more then a few hours, sometimes immediately.  Try both of these, I'm sure you will find what you need.    They are both  free of charge, believe it or not!!!\n\nLet me know what you think,  my s/n on astromart is lilkritter!!  Good Luck!
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you could see the edge of the universe.  that was one of the things the Hubble space telescope was designed to do. \n\ntaking the age of the universe as around 14 billion yrs old you could see that far(in light years) into space.
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Firstly, Uranus and Neptune are planets, not galaxies. But if you are using the term correcly, then even a pair of binoculars will allow you to see these things if you know where to look (in the case of galaxies you need mostly dark skies). Now if you want to know if you can see them WELL as opposed to *just* seeing them, then as others have pointed out, the larger the aperture (diameter of objective lens or mirror) the more you will see. Because of expense reflectors are more suited than refractors >100mm to see these things.