Observational Astronomy. By Arthur Mee (Cardiff: Daniel Owen and Co., 1893.) THIS small book should serve the purpose for which it is issued; the object being to provide the beginner with an ...

ON April 28, Prof. H. H. Plaskett delivered his inaugural lecture as Savilian professor of astronomy at Oxford. Recalling the fact that the year of the foundation of the professorship was also ...

On September 14, 2015, humanity crossed a cosmic threshold. LIGO detected gravitational waves - ripples in spacetime ...

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

Chinese astronomers have employed NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) to observe an eclipsing binary of the ...

Professors at Penn State helped develop the world's most powerful survey telescope, which released its first images earlier ...