astronomy

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, cosmology, astronomy, colonialism, Mauna Kea, Thirty Meter Telescope, Native Hawaiians, Hawaii, Mauna Kea observatories, Keck telescopes, SpaceX, Starlink mega-constellation, Kitt Peak, colonialism, New York Times, Mauna a Wakea, Iokepa Casumbal-Salazar, Supreme Court of Hawaii, United States of America, imperialism, Arizona,

Astronomers May Not Like It but Astronomy and Colonialism Have a Shared History

Nithyanand Rao 02/02/2020

Casting Native Hawai'ians' opposition to the Thirty Meter Telescope...

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The Simple Physics of the Annular Solar Eclipse on December 26

T.V. Venkateswaran 26/12/2019

It is a natural celestial show. Please enjoy it...

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Astronomers Discover That the Milky Way Is a Warped and Twisted Galaxy

Will Dunham 02/08/2019

The most precise map to date of the Milky Way was...

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The Pitfalls of Searching for Alien Life

Diane Peters 03/07/2019

Scientists looking for evidence of extraterrestrials can draw media...

Starlink, SpaceX, astronomy, night sky, cultural heritage, field of view, astronomy, space telescopes, ground-based telescopes, Thirty Metre Telescope, European Extremely Large Telescope, Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, Elon Musk, Falcon 9, radio telescopes, radio frequency, International Astronomical Union, low-Earth orbit, internet from space, European Southern Observatory, India-based Neutrino Observatory,

Why Astronomers Are Up in Arms Against SpaceX’s Starlink Satellites

Abhijeet Borkar 14/06/2019

A thousand-dozen satellites would outnumber stars visible to the...

Earth, Venus, Mercury, Mars, point circle method, spaceflight, astronomy, data torture, Keplerian orbital elements, orbits of the planets, satellites, asteroids, comets, top news, headlines, astronomical units,

Did You Know? On Average, Mercury Is Earth’s Closest Neighbour.

Pratik Pawar 28/03/2019

Trying to improve stargazing and space-journeying are lofty goals...

astrometry, Gaia space probe, European Space Agency - ESA, telescope, astrolabe, armillary sphere, trigonometry, Hipparchus, parallax effect, heliometer telescope, 61 Cygni, Astrographic Catalogue, Space Age, Milky Way galaxy, white dwarf stars, Kepler space telescope, Hubble's constant, quadrants, sextants, astronomy,

From Hipparchus to Gaia, the Story of Finding Our Place Among Billions of Stars

Jatan Mehta 27/02/2019

Although astrometry is over 2,200 years old, it wasn't...