Industrial Complex Proposal Threatens Some of the World’s Clearest Skies for Astronomy
Chile's Atacama Desert is home to some of the best Earth-based observatories, though an energy company is throwing a wrench ...
Big Rockets, a Big Telescope and Big Changes in Space Await in 2025
Formerly the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, the observatory was renamed in 2020 to honor Vera Rubin, who died at 88 in 2016 ...
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AST SpaceMobile's Large Satellites to Roll and Tilt to Prevent Astronomy Interference
The company will also look at making design additions to its BlueBird satellites to prevent them from reflecting too much ...
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Sync Your Calendar With the Solar System
How to use this calendar. What to expect in space and astronomy in 2025 Jan. 10: Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket could attempt its debut launch. How to use this calendar. The New York Times has ...
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Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy upgrades core network infrastructure
Landmark’ project sees AI-native networking company facilitate a network upgrade for the Netherlands Institute for Radio ...
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Astronomers have pinpointed the origin of mysterious repeating radio bursts from space
In new research, we have for the first time tracked one of these pulsating signals back to its source: a common kind of lightweight star called a red dwarf, likely in a binary orbit with a white dwarf ...
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SpaceX Tests Lower Starlink Orbit to Reduce Astronomy Photobombs
It used to be rare for an orbiting satellite to spoil astronomical observations, but the skies are much more crowded ever ...
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Astronomy Activation Ambassadors: A New Era
The NASA Science Activation Program’s Astronomy Activation Ambassadors (AAA) project aims to measurably enhance student ...
Astronomy & Astrophysics 101: Magnetosphere
What Is a Magnetosphere? A magnetosphere is the region surrounding a planet that is dominated by its magnetic field. While ...
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Our favorite space stories of 2024 — from lost planets to human-caused meteor showers
From the mysterious Planet Nine to the prospect of a "human-caused meteor shower," space and physics editor Brandon Specktor ...
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Explore the constellation Cassiopeia
One of the first constellations amateur astronomers come to recognize, the Queen offers observers many worthy sights.
Carter's UFO hounded him for years. Few knew his expertise in astronomy.
Though Carter never claimed to have spotted aliens or a flying saucer — to him this was literally an unknown object in the air — people snickered and mistook his UFO sighting as such. Skeptics, who ...