THE author of this book is professor of astronomy in the University of Illinois. In 1930 he wrote “Astronomy”, containing five hundred pages and published by the Van Nostrand Company, New York.

Valleriani and colleagues used AI to examine a digitized collection of 359 astronomy textbooks published from 1472, less than 20 years after the first printing of the Gutenberg Bible, to 1650 (SN ...

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Intro to AI is MIT Technology Review’s first newsletter that also serves as a mini-course. You’ll get one email a week for six weeks, and each edition will walk you through a different topic ...

Years ago, astronomy professors started noticing something that troubled them: Many of their students didn't understand climate change and the science supporting it. So a small group of professors ...

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The Northeast Astronomy Forum 2025 is the "world's largest astronomy and space expo," and runs this weekend from April 5-6 in Suffern, New York. Skip to main content. Open menu Close menu ...

On a remote Chilean mountaintop, inside a domed observatory named after astronomer Vera Rubin, a camera unlike any the world has ever seen is about to open its eye to the universe. It’s not just ...

A U.K. space startup has revealed plans to launch its first satellite as part of SpaceX’s rideshare program, ushering in what it claims will be a “new era of space research,” where astronomy ...

The Astronomy & Astrophysics Department welcomes postdoctoral scientist Emiel Por, who invents technologies that mold the starlight captured by ground- and space-based telescopes to improve imaging of ...

Rector is one of the founders of Astronomers for Planet Earth, an organization of over 2000 educators teaching people about climate change through astronomy.. This combination makes sense to ...

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