It's been 100 years since we learned the Milky Way is not the only galaxy
On Sunday November 23, 1924, 100 years ago this month, readers perusing page six of the New York Times would have found an ...
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‘Silent Sky’ how astronomy, equality and disabilities converge
Within the University of Montana’s School of Theatre, representation for people with disabilities is highlighted in the ...
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New exhibition celebrates the Canberra observatory that discovered '95 per cent of the universe'
Perhaps Canberra's greatest stake in the world of science celebrates a major birthday this year, and there's a special ...
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It's 100 Years Since We Learned The Milky Way Is Not The Only Galaxy
a young Leavitt was hired as a“computer” to analyse images from telescope observations at Harvard College Observatory, Massachusetts. Leavitt studied photographic plates from telescope ...
Photo Shows Planets Aligned Above Giza Pyramids?
In mid-November 2024, a photograph circulated on social media, allegedly showing three planets perfectly aligned above the ...
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Science and faith in Georges Lemaître
The following year saw Lemaître at the Harvard College Observatory and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he earned a Ph.D. in Physics.
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Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory - Mt. Hopkins, AZ
In 2002, the observatory implemented “adaptive optics”, which ... was an American astronomer who spent most of his professional career at Harvard University, where he discovered or co-discovered ...
Saturday Citations: Sweaty, remarkable humans; ocean level rise projections; closeup of a star in another galaxy
Since we last spoke, researchers at the University of Birmingham have defined the precise shape of a single photon (spoiler: ...