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AUSTIN, Minn. (KTTC) –The Jay C. Hormel Nature Center can give the public a glimpse of what lies beyond Earth’s atmosphere ...
Students and faculty at BYU’s Department of Physics and Astronomy understand the value of the stars, and they dedicate their ...
And astronomers have a brand-new, superpowerful eye with which to see the changing cosmos: the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in ...
After decades of planning and construction, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory is about to begin a 10-year survey of the southern ...
At the summit of Cerro Pachón, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory has started its work.
A new mural is taking shape on the campus of Delta College, combining art with science.
Brandon University has renamed its rooftop facility, long a beacon for stargazers in western Manitoba, as the Gulliver Astronomical Observatory, following a $50,000 donation from the family of its ...
From the outside, a planetarium and an observatory might look a somewhat similar, but it's what's inside that counts.
At its peak, 200 people worked on site, in support of the observatory's operations with these telescopes. The Equatorial Group is a group of six telescope domes, making up the primary observatory ...
This decision was deliberate, to allow the domes to 'camouflage' into the surrounding green hills. In 1967, the Royal Greenwich Observatory built a new tool — the Isaac Newton Telescope.
The project, which cost around €25,000 (£21,000), included moving to the countryside for clearer skies and purchasing a second-hand observatory dome.