The longer nights of August beckon with several treats this month. Saturn and Neptune undergo their second conjunction of the year, appearing together in a low-power telescope eyepiece. Telescopic ...
In July 1967, Jocelyn Bell Burnell noticed a “bit of scruff” in the radio data she was receiving at the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory. Together with her Ph.D. advisor Antony Hewish, she zeroed ...
Mars’ moons are easily visible at night from the Red Planet. Larger Phobos is brighter, while smaller Deimos is still brighter than any star.
Jupiter reaches its best apparition in a decade for northern observers and offers a wealth of detail. Joining in late evening is brilliant Mars, now a month from opposition. Saturn is visible in the ...
New Moon occurs at 7:01 A.M. EST, bringing an annular solar eclipse to Antarctica and part of the Southern Ocean. Only travelers in these regions will see the Moon cover nearly all of the Sun’s disk, ...
Recent months have featured a few stories about how Albert Einstein’s theories, or the ideas underpinning them, have all been confirmed to a new degree of accuracy. That’s usually the case: Scientists ...
Let’s begin by reviewing some astronomical “history”: Han Solo and his rebel cohorts Leia Organa, Chewbacca, and C-3PO are nestled uncomfortably together in the Millennium Falcon’s cockpit while their ...
A study led by SETI Institute scientist Matija Ćuk proposes that Saturn’s bright rings and its largest moon, Titan, may have both originated in collisions among its moons. This study was accepted for ...
Experience the awe of ancient history and the spectacle of a rare celestial event on this 5-day journey to Luxor, centered around the August 2 total solar eclipse. With an incredible totality of 6 ...
You can credit Earth’s atmosphere with providing an orangish color to the Moon during an eclipse. The atmosphere acts like a ...
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