"I think every astronomer is going to find something of value here, as NASA's missions enable the world to answer fundamental ...

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NASA has turned its attention to a ghostly shroud of hydrogen that stretches far beyond the familiar blue edge of our planet, ...

Planet is building Pelican satellites to gather imagery with a resolution as high as 40 centimeters per pixel. Credit: Planet KIHEI, Hawaii — The Federal Communications Commission is requiring more ...

Constellations through the ages -- Constellations of the zodiac -- An astronomy primer -- Watching the skies -- How this book is organized -- The greek alphabet -- Map of the northern sky -- Map of ...

For more than a century, astronomers debated the possibility of martian canali (channels) which Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli claimed to see on the Red Planet in 1877. Mistranslated into ...

June presents a perfect opportunity to spot the three biggest constellations in the sky — Hydra, Virgo and Ursa Major — but you may have to look beyond standard star charts to find the Big Three. Over ...

Science Engagement Astronomer, South African Astronomical Observatory, South African Astronomical Observatory Recent decades have seen remarkable growth in astronomy on the African continent. Africa ...