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In May 2009, the Space Shuttle Atlantis crew launched a mission to make vital repairs and upgrades to the Hubble Space Telescope, the world’s first space-based optical telescope. An IMAX® […]
One day it’s gonna happen. We’ve even stuck it on our Google Calendar (tentatively busy June 15, 5,000,000,2008). On that date (give or take a few millennia), the sun will […]
The way Hollywood envisions moving at light speed doesn’t really work – since it still implies that you move a certain distance over a certain time period. As far as […]
Using data from the VISTA infrared survey telescope at ESO’s Paranal Observatory, an international team of astronomers has discovered 96 new open clusters hidden by the dust in the Milky […]
Comet Garradd on Aug. 1. 2011 as seen from Australia. Credit: Peter Lake. If you haven’t already, it’s time to start looking for Comet Garradd! This comet, with the nomenclature […]