The telescopes promising insight into universe's origins

As India launches its first space telescope, BBC News looks at some of the innovations getting astronomers excited.

The world's current telescopes - both on the ground and in space - have expanded our understanding of the universe and provided some remarkable images of our own galaxy and beyond.

But over the next decade a new generation of incredibly powerful observatories are to be built which will allow us to study further into the universe and with far greater clarity.