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A fast-spreading wildfire southwest of Tucson burned through the property of the Kitt Peak National Observatory early Friday, but the damage to the world famous telescope site was not known, officials ...

At 3 a.m. on a crisp May night in Chile, all seemed well with the world’s largest digital camera. Until it didn’t. Inside the newly built Vera C. Rubin Observatory, site project scientist Sandrine ...

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The Hong Kong Observatory cancelled all typhoon signals at 8.20pm on Sunday as a tropical depression moves away from Hong Kong. Instead, it issued the Strong Monsoon Signal. At 8pm, the tropical ...

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The Observatory says it will issue the Standby Signal No. 1 on Friday evening, if a tropical cyclone developing near the Philippines comes within 800km of Hong Kong. "The area of low pressure over ...