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Born June 29, 1868, in Chicago, George Ellery Hale revolutionized American astronomy by, among other things, championing the ...
Highlighting 10 major astronomical milestones of the past century in celebration of the Royal Greenwich Observatory’s 350th ...
No telescope has basked in the night sky quite like the enormous new Vera Rubin Observatory. Here's what it could reveal about the universe.
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Enjoy classic sci-fi, vintage silent films, and even a few family-friendly surprises in Mt. Wilson Observatory’s 256-seat ...
The nearby Wilson Observatory Dome also has basements. “And we showed we could protect the mountain,” he said. Fire didn’t jump over to the other side of Mount Wilson Road, which he said was a tribute ...
The 1980 eruption of Mt. St. Helens — which began with a series of small earthquakes in mid-March and peaked with a cataclysmic flank collapse, avalanche, and explosion on May 18 — was not the largest ...
Lainey Wilson performs during CMA Fest at Nissan Stadium Friday, June 10, 2022 in Nashville, Tennessee. The Spotify country playlist "Fresh Finds" inspired the selections for the rooftop line-up.
The next morning, at 3:30 a.m., just as the rain eased, they resumed their climb through the steep, soggy terrain of Mount Kinabalu. “It was physically very tough,” Uzayr admitted.
Perched 4,200 feet up Mount Hamilton, the Lick Observatory has been scanning the cosmos for nearly 150 years. Researchers working at Lick Observatory — a major site in the University of California ...
Rubin Observatory's LSST is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to fill in the missing pieces of our solar system, said Mario Juric, a member of the Sorcha team and a UW professor of Astronomy.
New observations from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes have captured a rare cosmic event: Two galaxy clusters have collided and are now poised to head back for another swipe ...