We humans are very visual creatures. For us “seeing is believing”. But the visible light we can see is only a very small part of the full electromagnetic spectrum. This talk goes beyond the visible, looking at the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) radio telescopes, the James Webb Space Telescope which observes in the infra-red to see back to the time of the formation of the first stars after the Big Bang 13 billion years ago, x-ray and gamma-ray telescopes that observe the biggest explosions since the Big Bang. These telescopes also study the atmospheres of exoplanets around other stars in the search for other life in the Universe. The new telescopes, both in space and on the ground, are among the most sophisticated machines ever imagined and built.