📝 The Instrument and the Eye: Why Amateur Astronomy Still Matters in the Age of Space Telescopes
Published Friday, June 19, 2026 at 02:03 PM PT The Instrument and the Eye: Why Amateur Astronomy Still Matters in the Age of Space Telescopes Here’s the thing about astronomy that nobody wants to admit: most of what we know about the universe comes from people staring through eyepieces, not from billion-dollar satellites. And before you cite the James Webb or Hubble, remember that those instruments exist because someone, somewhere, got obsessed enough with a telescope to figure out what questions were worth asking in the first place. ...