Astronomy

HONOLULU (AP) — For more than 50 years, telescopes and the needs of astronomers have dominated the summit of Mauna Kea, a mountain sacred to Native Hawaiians that’s also one of the finest places in the world to study the night sky.That’s…

Knowledge of astronomy and astrophysics is crucial to understanding some of the most fundamental questions of our universe. We cannot know the origins of anything—from galaxies to black holes to life itself—without studying the cosmos in…

By Gary Puckrein Humans are pretty darn special — but you wouldn’t know it from looking at our healthcare system. To understand just how incredibly unique humanity is, take a gander at the trove of data just released by the…

What we understand and observe of the night sky and its make-up is the product of thousands of years of scientific investigation. Mariam Al Astrulabi, a Syrian Muslim woman hailing from 10th C. Aleppo, should be thanked for much of this…

Dr. Katie Devine of the College of Idaho The Department of Physics presents “The PERYSCOPE Project: Involving Astronomy Students in Star Formation Research” with Katie Devine of the College of Idaho at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 5 in…

WASHINGTON — Faced within increasing costs, the European Space Agency is looking for ways to revise the design of a large X-ray space telescope, an effort that could have implications for NASA’s own astrophysics programs. ESA…

SpaceX is working on several upgrades to the company’s Starlink satellites in an effort to prevent them from bothering astronomers. The upgrades try to address how Starlink satellites can reflect sunlight as they orbit the Earth. This…

BEIJING (AP) — China added a laboratory to its permanent orbiting space stationMonday as it moves toward completing the structure in coming months. The Wentian laboratory was launched from the Wenchang space base on the tropical island…

“If that galaxy shown to be 300 million years old is true then big galaxies had already formed,” he said. “Stars had to form way before that. So I'm guessing between 50 to 100 million years after the big bang. That would be my guess.…

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