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These are some of the best telescopes for beginners, which don't have to be the biggest or most expensive to see cool stuff.

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Start exploring the night sky with our top picks for beginner-friendly telescopes. Tested for clarity, ease of use and build quality, these are our favorite models to learn astronomy.

Refractor to reflector, Schmidt-Cassegrain to Maksutov-Cassegrain - this is everything you need to know about the different types of telescopes.

Though still only in the prototype stage, this flat lens could one day be used on space telescopes, and perhaps even on amateur telescopes.

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As with a reflector telescope, bouncing the light around simulates a longer telescope, increasing its maximum magnification. Compound telescopes are small and powerful, but also more expensive.

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The Quest for Gigantic Telescopes The next generation of extremely large telescopes will have 100 times the light-gathering power and 10 times the image quality of the Hubble Space Telescope.