A green energy plant expected to be built in Chile could increase night-time sky brightness at one of the world's most ...

The course provides project-based practical experience in observational astronomy. Guided by faculty, students will make their own astronomical investigations using telescoped, cameras, and ...

the object being to provide the beginner with an inexpensive treatise to enable him to become familiar with and interested in the practice of observational astronomy. For this reason the author ...

Science uses careful, organized observations and tests to construct theories that are recorded, passed on to others and built ...

When massive stars explode as supernovae, they can leave behind neutron stars. Other than black holes, these are the densest ...

Astronomers from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy have constructed the first detailed 3D map of the properties of cosmic dust in our home galaxy. For their map, the astronomers used 130 million ...

Using the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA), astronomers have performed high-resolution observations of a nearby ...

This new program, called the Unistellar College Astronomy Network (UCAN), has the goal of encouraging observational astronomy and inquiry-based science education experiences for teachers and students.

When we observe distant celestial objects, there is a possible catch: Is that star I am observing really as reddish as it ...

Observations of nearby star-forming regions are an ideal ... will transform how astronomers interact with data and how astronomy discoveries are made Stella Offner joined the Astronomy Department at ...