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Women and ethnic minority groups are still significantly underrepresented in astronomy and geophysics despite attempts to ...
These large 15x70 binoculars are ideal for starting your astronomy journey — see the moon, planets and deep space objects.
Penn State Astronomy Professor Chris Palma talks about the activities available for all ages at AstroFest. The free and open ...
In looking over the shortlist for the Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2025 competition, I thought about how I’ve seen tho ...
Names are a strange thing in astronomy. Sometimes scientists come up with grandiose, simple name, like the Extremely Large Telescope. Other times, they come up with unique sounding names, like quasars ...
Muhammad Umar, who uses his mother’s Celestron telescope to view the stars, said Jupiter, the largest and oldest planet in ...
There was also Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS), which became visible to the naked eye during late summer and early autumn ...
The presence of apparent biological signatures on Venus has left UK-based researchers chasing down bacterial life in the ...
The shortlist for Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2025 features 30 photographs selected from more than 5,800 global ...
The John Henry Rowe Endowed Scholarship is a tribute to the remarkable career and enduring legacy of John Henry Rowe. This ...
PhoSim simulates the atmosphere, including air turbulence, as well as distortions from the shape of the telescope’s mirrors and the electrical properties of the sensors. The photons are propagated ...
At an exhibition in the heart of China's capital, Beijing, cosmic data becomes tangible art.