The biggest buzz in ground-based astronomy these days is the soon to be completed Rubin Observatory and its forthcoming wide field Large Synoptic Sky Survey. From a lonely mountaintop in northern ...

Astronomy studies celestial objects and phenomena beyond Earth. Astronomy degrees offer specializations like cosmology, planetary science, and stellar astrophysics. Astronomers use telescopes, math, ...

Astronomy on Tap ATX is partnering with C. L. Butaud for Astronomy Uncorked. It’s November. The days are getting shorter and colder. We just turned back our clocks. But what is this thing we call time ...

The article recounts the author's personal journey into astronomy, highlighting several influential beginner astronomy guidebooks from various eras, including "Stars: A Guide to the Constellations," ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Astrophotography can make you feel two very different things: tiny ...

That's a lot of standard candles. June 22 marks the 350th anniversary of the Royal Observatory Greenwich, the home of the historic Prime Meridian that is considered by many to be the birthplace of ...

Foreword; Preface; Contents; Chapter-1; The Origins of Astronomy; Human Experience of the Sky; Figures in the Sky: The Constellations; The Ancients' Astronomy; Chapter-2; The Babylonians; The ...

At a solar observatory in the Maya city of Xochicalco, in Mexico, sunlight passed through a disk at ground level and shined down a long hole into a cavern below, allowing observers to track the sun’s ...

The announcement said that Astronomer Maarten Schmidt of Caltech had discovered a quasar (quasi-stellar radio source) racing away from earth at 80% of the speed of light. That brief observation last ...

To the casual reader, the story may sound like a far-out effort at science fiction. But the moon tale told by Swedish Physicist Hannes Alfven amounts to much more than an imaginative voyage into the ...