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July is an excellent month for astrophotographers. The clear summer skies and warm nights help, but what will excite night sky-watchers are its three meteor showers, striking lunar conjunctions and ...
Venus continues to be the “Morning Star” in the east before dawn, albeit it has become dimmer — but still bright — as it ...
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), launched in 2021, is currently the most powerful space observatory ever built.
Mercury is the month's highlight, reaching greatest elongation July 4. Also on show in the Southern Hemisphere: Mars, Saturn, ...
The 10-year survey is the primary mission of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, located on a mountaintop at the edge of Chile’s ...
A vast filament of gas stretching across the cosmos may help solve the mystery of the Universe’s missing matter. Astronomers have identified a massive filament of hot gas connecting four galaxy ...
If you love gazing up at the night sky for a dazzling celestial show, book a stargazing tour in the International Dark Sky ...
L3Harris in Rochester played a pivotal role in building the Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s massive secondary mirror, now part of the world’s most advanced sky-survey telescope.
Rubin’s completion converged with technological advancements that are poised to spread the data it produces far and wide to ...
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has once again unveiled groundbreaking insights into the universe, this time ...
The Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT), an enormous ground-based telescope currently under construction in Chile's Atacama Desert ...
When you think of camping tools, a smartphone probably isn't the first thing that comes to mind. However, their versatility makes them an irreplaceable tool, especially when it comes to safety. As ...