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A valuable collection of vintage scientific equipment, including telescopes, controllers and a device invented on-site called a "spectroheliokinematograph," is locked up inside. At a time of ...

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The primary objective of this spacewalk is to replace critical hardware and repair the Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) X-ray telescope. Listen to Story Williams and Hague will ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured photos of one of the earliest supernovas ever seen, with features appearing like grains and knots found in a cut of wood. "Once upon a time ...

The Celestron NexStar 4SE is ideal for beginners wanting quality ... While the pair could be seen in the night sky by the unaided eye, binoculars or a telescope would have allowed viewers to see ...

SIR JOHN HERSCHEL'S dictum in his well-known panegyric on star-catalogues, that “every well-determined star from the moment its place is registered is as effective for mapping down the ...