McKim Observatory still houses many of its original instruments, including a 9.53 inch Clark Refractor telescope, a meridian transit telescope, and a gravity driven chronograph. Missing from the early ...
Looking for a sky event this week? Check out our full Sky This Week column. November 30: Watch Titan reappear Jupiter is the ...
On June 5th in North and Central America, and June 6th in Asia, Australia, and most of Europe, the planet Venus will cross in front of the Sun. This will be only the eighth such transit of Venus since ...
McKim Observatory is an excellent example of a late 19th-century American observatory. Built in 1884, it retains much of its original equipment and remains largely untouched by modernization. Its ...
A new study shows the European Extremely Large Telescope will be able to directly image and study the atmospheres of some potentially habitable exoplanets. When you purchase through links on our site, ...
The James Webb Telescope is reshaping our understanding of distant worlds, revealing exoplanet atmospheres, potential ...
This month, the U.S. Naval Observatory’s Flagstaff Station will celebrate the 50th anniversary of its establishment as the USNO’s dark-sky observing site. This milestone will be marked by a public ...
When the famous Coggia's Comet flashed across the sky in 1874, a Missouri astronomer named Carr Waller Pritchett made a wish. A year later, that wish came true. Pritchett was hoping for the right ...
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