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If you live in the Northern Hemisphere and look up during July evenings, you'll see the brilliant star Vega shining overhead.
If you're buying binoculars for children, you might balk at spending $200 on a pair. That's where the Celestron Cometron 7x50 ...
Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming around a baby sun-like star, a peek into the dawn of ...
Because Pluto is so dim, you need a telescope to see it. “A backyard telescope could do it under the right conditions,” says ...
A team of astronomers led by the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian has discovered a rare object far beyond ...
Researchers stitched together hundreds of images from the Very Large Telescope to form a breathtaking photo of a nearby ...
The world's most powerful telescopes, including the James Webb Space Telescope and FAST, are revolutionizing our ...
A road trip is one of the best ways to see some of the most notable attractions and landmarks the United States has to offer. With long highways and many small towns to drive through, it’s quite a ...
Are we living in a cosmic void? New theory suggests our galaxy sits in a giant hole warping the universe's expansion.
What at first seemed a routine detection of an object travelling through the solar system soon turned out to be anything but.
Scientists have revealed that radar systems at airports and military bases would shine out like cosmic beacons for any watching civilisations. This means airports like Gatwick and Heathrow could be ...
We show that multi-path analysis using images from a timeof-flight (ToF) camera provides a tantalizing opportunity to infer about 3D geometry of not only visible but hidden parts of a scene. We ...